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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is the most beneficial knowledge which can be enlightened upon me which i can both understand and relay and/or implemenet which will have the greatest positive impact on humanity while also being a medium for my own success and instrumental in self-fulfillment spiritually, economically, and emotionslly?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do you get your answers from?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd resolve one of those mathematical conjectures that have bounty on them. The proof would simply be that the answer to my question was quaranteed to be true due to the OP's implication.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wonderful idea, here's a list of some of them for anyone that's curious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Don't solve just one, ask "what are the solutions to the problems listed here?" and get all of them at once.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

what are the next winning lottery numbers?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

What treatments will revert aging.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

African or European?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll™ tootsie pop?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

1, 2, crunch, 3...3

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Truthful but not guaranteed complete isn't so useful...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

who's throwing his trash in my trash can?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Probably a formula for some cheap to manufacture, room-temperature superconductor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"Explain the technology needed for interstellar and intergalactic travel."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"How can humanity achieve faster than light travel?"

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