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Just before death you are granted one truthful, understandable answer to one question. What would you want to know? (mander.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Obviously a hypothetical scenario. There is no way to pass on the knowledge to anyone else. Time freezes for you only, and once you have your answer you are out of this world.

The question can allow you to see into the past, present and future and gain comprehension of any topic/issue. But it's only one question.

Edit: the point isn't "how to cheat death". You can't. Your body is frozen and there is nothing you can do with this knowledge other than knowing it, and die. So if you would rather be frozen in a limbo just thinking of numbers for eternity, be my guest.

Such a variety of replies, it's been really interesting to read them!

What would you want to know? Personally I'd want to see a timelapse or milestone glimpses of humanity's future until the end of Earth's existence (if we survive that long)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I want to know what the best version of myself would have been like. What did I miss out on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What happened to the other species of humans? Would they like metal? The first question can be ignored if both are not allowed

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Probably go something like this:

https://youtu.be/CJ53kstD-14?si=s9XHLiiwRcBWJgUN

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

"What is every number each under 1 sextillion?" bouta buy me a little time

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do it squirt?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

End screen with credits of people involved in my life

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Does everything in this world have an answer?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Can I bum a cig?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I feel like it would probably be something about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. That thing is really annoying.

Although I feel I might get stuck in a recursive answer if I ask the wrong thing. So maybe I would ask something about a loved one, that I already know the answer to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

When I die my first question to the Devil will be: What is the meaning of the fine structure constant?

— Wolfgang Pauli

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

How might entropy be meaningfully reversed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I would probably ask the question to whoever give this option to me. Probably something like "Tell me about yourself in the most detailed way".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Compared to many different lives I could had chosen to end up with, from a scale of 1 to 10 how happy were I, could have been, and how happy were the people that surrounded me.

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