• Glytch@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Depends on if it’s de-aging or time travel.

    If I’m just de-aged and left in the present I would try and become a real life Baby Herman from Roger Rabbit and go into comedy.

    If it’s time travel I’d try not to make the same mistakes but then end up making all different ones and ruining my life in new and interesting ways.

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      Yeah if I’m a baby in 2026 with my 2026 skills and knowledge, it’s not particularly useful because I don’t want to start literally working as a newborn and in 20 years my skillset might not be as relevant anymore. Not to mention the whole “oh buy a bunch of Bitcoin” thing ain’t gonna work if it’s already at (whatever it is now).

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    6 days ago

    Most of the time people post these questions, the answer is always really boring.

    No of course I don’t want to get turned into a baby, it isn’t useful to me to be a baby, my current life would not be easier just because I was physically younger if I was like 95 then I guess it would be useful but I’m not so it isn’t.

    At least I’ve not been asked if I would travel back in time, because that one comes up every 15 minutes and the answer is always the same, buy bitcoin, again boring answer.

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      5 days ago

      You and everyone else who answered “buy Bitcoin” get travelled back in time to the same point in time simultaneously, it’s now a Bitcoin battle royale.

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      6 days ago

      I can’t remember what the documentary is called, but there was a recent series about a scam with the old McDonald’s Monopoly game. Some guy who worked the game knew the winning numbers and would get them to various friends and distant family members and take a cut of the prize for himself. It turns out that the chance that very distant relatives would both win were incredibly low odds and that sent a lot of red flags to the FBI which led to him being caught.

      Anyway, my point is that you really could likely get away with winning one, possibly two of those lotteries before feds come asking you questions lol

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    Oh man…sadly, I would never have meet most of my friends, which would instantly suck. But I know it is predictable, but I would take advantage of bitcoin mining. I would annoy the fuck out of my parents to get to it. I would seek to get my hands on the internet as soon as possible!

    And of course, if I make money on time, buy Pokemon Platinum with bitcoin.

    I would use all the money to create passive income, and spend most of my time studying, exercising, taking care of my health, just to go to an university to get a career in AI engineering, knowing how important it would become. But I would try a different path to today’s advanced AI, attempting to beat the big companies to it…

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    If I have to get turned back into a baby in place then no thank you, quite happy with life as it is. If we are going back in time there’s ofcourse ample time for things like doing the right investments and retiring from work before even leaving school.

    And I can find my wife way earlier in life.

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    I’ll probably forget half, or most, of everything by the time I actually gain proper consciousness and start forming long term memories, so I suppose I’ll end up doing nearly everything I did more or less the same

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    Same. Mom was a religious nutjob and dad ain’t far behind. Nothing could incentivize me to relive that. That’s just double trauma.

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    You get turned back into a baby but you retain all your skills and memory, what do you do?

    Run away from home, walk the earth, avoid narcissists and psychopaths, create an emancipatory revolution provisioning each and all with all the emancipatory technology they could ever need, sublimating humanity to an interstellar (even intergalactic) species.

    */Dreamer*