Giovanniland Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 Pick your choice and discuss below! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Carraway Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 Whenever I have found myself wanting to know what the future holds, most of the time, I'm wanting to know only the immediate future, so being able to see 10 minutes into the future would be more useful I guess. It's ok to disagree with me - I can see many advantages for seeing 10 years into the future instead. Giovanniland 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giovanniland Posted August 25, 2023 Author Share Posted August 25, 2023 I agree with you, I think seeing 10 minutes can help to know the immediate effects of a decision or if there's any incoming danger to us, but 10 years would be far too much things happening in between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilber Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Can you change the future or only view it and it's immutable? Does this power destroy free will? the people must know Nagaraningrad and Giovanniland 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arstotskiano A.K.A Creopotava Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 10 mins, much more helpful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
embubbleblue Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 10 minutes gives you the option to make quick decisions without knowing too much about what the future holds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutorial Bot Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 10 mins lets you do stuff so much easier than 10 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Choose 10 years so I can see if I make any difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teralyon Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Question doesn't state that its a one time use deal so definitely 10 years. With literally everything being on the internets now, I could just hop onto the Boogles (Microsoft finally gave up trying to make Bing popular and just bought Google in 2032) and pull the biggest lotteries and stock blowups and amass a fortune which id then use to fund a private army and overthrow Norway and Denmark, raising a cyber Viking horde and start pillaging the English country side. Giovanniland 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giovanniland Posted August 28, 2023 Author Share Posted August 28, 2023 On 8/25/2023 at 11:42 AM, Dilber said: Can you change the future or only view it and it's immutable? Does this power destroy free will? the people must know Some tough questions I think some people would inevitably use their new-found knowledge about the future to change it. An example I've heard before is that: a prediction is made by an advisor to the king that a revolution will happen, so the king can lower taxes and please the populace. Then the revolution never happens, making the prediction false, but it could have been true had he not listened to the prediction. Which could reduce free will in a way, since people would make decisions in a different way than they do now. I mean, there's a few different ways to think about this - one could think of the future as a tree of possibilities in which everything that can go one way or another creates a different alternate universe and our decisions take us to one or another. So we'd be switching in a way if we could foresee things and change our decisions because of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagaraningrad Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 If the future can be change after we see it, 10 minutes seems useful if it's inevitable, i better have my popcorn for 10 years worth of doomsday spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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