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This is always a fun thought experiment/hypothetical. Would you go back in time given you get to keep your current knowledge?

It's tough.. On it's face, it's like "Yeah obviously.. Go back in time, buy as much bitcoin as you can in 2010 for $0.10/ea.. Sell 100 of them three years later for an easy milli, and then cash out a little more in 2020 and be a kajillionaire. GG, EZ."

The biggest thing is, would you be able to do this without going crazy?

Like imagine trying to keep your facts straight in your head. All of the things you know that aren't true, but will be true in the future? How will you keep up? When did Event X happen? Was that 2014? or 2015?

Constantly being tortured by your own weird memory! Is this thing I think to be true actually true? Is it something that's just not true yet? Have I changed the trajectory of time, and somehow made it so that thing won't ever come true? Was it ever true in the first place or am I just mis-remembering?
I'm already tortured by this without time travel. I might be even a bit more spacey and quirky, but being wealthy would take the edge off. Plus its an opportunity to see more places, try more things, and learn more. If I don't keep everything straight and people think I'm making up half of everything I say--oh well. Its real to me. :)
 

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I'm already tortured by this without time travel. I might be even a bit more spacey and quirky, but being wealthy would take the edge off. Plus its an opportunity to see more places, try more things, and learn more. If I don't keep everything straight and people think I'm making up half of everything I say--oh well. Its real to me. :)

I suspect I'd also be slowly eaten alive by my urge to--intervene.
 

I think if you are eating a lot of Scandinavian licorice, the bards likely don't have to worry. :p

"In the EU, the concentration of ammonium chloride is simply not allowed in foods. The Nordic countries have a special permission to add it to our sweets.

Ammonium chloride is also an ingredient in hair shampoo, in certain kinds of glue and cleaning product and in batteries. "

Well, now I find myself compelled to order some Svenskjävlar and give it a try. Took a while to find somewhere in the US to buy it from to avoid crazy shipping costs.
 





A general reminder for folks in this thread: if it's obvious which other thread you're commenting on, then you're doing it wrong.
 

I'm frequently reminded:
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