Stipulations:
- You cannot die and are immune to disease
- You cannot alter the future such that you change the world from your point of origin. i.e. You cannot become so famous that future people recognize you as immortal.
- If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.
As I was reading this, I disappeared in a flash of light and landed in 1945. But I have a plan.
And here we are. Money wise, I own about half the world and now I can finally act. Where should I start?
Please dump enough “political contributions” into us politics to get intelligent, empathetic, progressive people in charge.
It’s pretty rare for good people to become immensely wealthy and stay good people. Money corrupts, and once you’re to a point where money is no longer survival but a high score, that starts to drive your thinking.
Absolutely correct.
Maybe immortality, infinite wealth, and a hundred year long life won’t corrupt THIS person?
Brb gotta go pray to the Easter bunny …
Living 81 years with the prospect of annihilation if one rocks the boat too much will change a man. Likewise honing the kind of duplicitous skills required to simply survive the attention of the world.
So, would my moral compass stay intact? If I don’t work at it, no - I’m under no illusion that it would. What I expect to happen is that I would continue to avoid the public eye. But once the shackles are off, there’s no telling where this goes.
Stepping out of this role for a bit, if I had that kind of wealth today, what would I invest in? Education and science. Press freedom. Rule of law. Anti-poverty programs (part of education). Probably others too, but those are the essentials.
“If you vary the timeline too much, you will cease to exist.”
Even if you want to be altruistic enough to sacrifice yourself for the good of humanity, you’ll be wiped out long before you’re able to change enough to lead to lasting improvement.
Fuck. It’s your fault!
Not yet, but it’s about to be. Just watch the dominoes and remember me.
Nono you don’t pin this shit on someone else now. You don’t give an evil mastermind origin story speech and then temporarily back out!
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OP tied my hands from day one: change the history and disappear. That restriction expired only 2 days ago. I do have things in place, and some calls have already been made, but these things take time. That being said, I have no ambitions of taking in the limelight. I’m a simple man, and I find I rather like the shadows.
I could tell you a bit about what’s cooking, but why spoil the surprise?
Can you spare a few million?
Get fucked peasant!
Super excellent. The only notes to add:
Steal and cycle through 2 new US identities every 10 years. Always churn new idienties faster than you expect. You can be Bob age 20, Jerry age 30 and Sid age 40 in LA, Chicago, and NYC, respectively, at the same time.
Start a shell company where all your identities are the board. Use it to buy land in LA and NYC.
Gamble for supplemental income.
At no point did my plans involve setting foot on US soil. Too many three letter agencies for my liking.
Fair. However, there’s a lot of runway before that really gets problematic. You can move things offshore prior to 2000 and be perfectly fine.
Funny seeing you here, surprised you didn’t say you’d go back to when we were enslaving and committing genocide on native Americans and capturing and torturing people in Africa.
Fun fact: you can talk about things that happened without endorsing or condoning the things that happened.
You’ll notice that I didn’t say anything about genocide or the slave trade being good.
Edit:ah yes, you’re the very stable genius that told me to “go die” recently. Very classy.
Like, do you need to talk to someone? You don’t seem OK.
Sure, that’s a great explanation as to why you used slavery as an example to justify shackling and limiting sentient A.I. and called it great.
Maybe don’t use condoning language if you’re not condoning something, cause that shit was racist as fuck, no matter how you try to contextualize it.
Look, I’m sorry that you’re still not understanding that taking about terrible things that humans in power did, and still do, to exploit other humans, doesn’t mean I’m saying that’s good.
It seems like you might be misunderstanding mid-sentence sarcasm as… being a fan of genocide and slavery? WTF is wrong with you? Read the room. Read with context. It’s an explanation that companies that exploit people will seamlessly transition to exploiting AGI.
I can’t tell if you’re genuinely stupid or just trying to be the worst internet troll. Either way, you’re really behaving quite inappropriately, sound like a fool, and are not good enough at understanding English to use your misunderstanding as a reason to cyberstalk and bully someone.
Very defensive.
Kill Jimmy Savile, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Epstein, so on.
Then you don’t survive, you cease to exist
Like for real or because you became a killer you lost your humanity?
No because of the rules of the hypothetical posed in this post
Indeed. Lame rules.
Would be a shittier hypothetical without boundaries because then what would be the point?
ALL OF THAT, JUST FOR A SAFE CAREER IN ACTING?!
Let’s just be excellent to each other, ok?
Hey, are you the guy who “lost” that hard drive full of Bitcoin in the landfill?
It was one of my minions. Poor sod. If he finds it, he can keep it. For me, that’s a rounding error. .
Ftting into your current life when you make it to the present would be noticable since you would’ve aged 81 years in the meantime.