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[–] 114 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

Blue door is a monkey's paw. You go back in time? You butterfly-effect shit you didn't intend to.

  • Buy a bunch of Bitcoin? A series of unanticipated changes means people figure out it's a pyramid scheme early and by around 2017 or so, the last Bitcoin miner shuts down. But hey, at least video cards are affordable!
  • Bring back Lotto numbers? Well sorry, buddy, but just by breathing the air differently, the air currents where the numbers are drawn are affected, and you're left with zilch.
  • Got kids younger than 10? They don't exist anymore! If you try to have them again, you end up with other kids who are similar, but not the same as the ones you loved... and have deleted from the timeline.

The answer to these time-travel opportunities is always to run screaming from them. But hey, at least with this one you've got an alternative where you become an instant millionaire! Take the $10 million. Don't fuck the timeline up.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yeah, the re-do your life idea really gets scary after you have kids. There's pretty much no way you get them back.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Bonus points, odds are you will have a really hard time re-meeting your partner. You're probably a totally different person than you were when you met. The chemistry that got you started is now not there and who knows how you mix now. It may still work, but they might be weirded out by how much you know about them.

    For both your sakes, the best option may be to never meet.

    I'll take the red door thanks.

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  • [–] 58 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    Blue Door. One of my greatest mistakes was not buying Bitcoin when it was 100 dollars

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    [–] 39 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Red door, I can't say how much better I would do things if I did them again. But 10 mil can make things much better right now.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Just look up some stocks to buy on the day of your first mistake before you go through the blue door and as a result you can have however much money you feel like is a good amount in future.

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  • [+] 35 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    As someone upper-class who hangs around rich people: Yes, money solves your problems, and yes, money is a great way to be happy

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    That's only true to a point and that point is not very high. There is some good literature on this, but after a handful of standard deviations above high-average income the happiness effect plateaus. Multimillionaires aren't any happier than millionaires and often work more / stress more to get there.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    You know, I happen to be ok with it plateauing, as long as I’m on the damn plateau.

    I’m not even within view range of the plateau at the moment. Might even be a different continent.

    But then, I’m not dumb enough to keep working/trying to earn more once I’m set to be comfortable for the rest of my life. So maybe that’s the difference.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The blue door, because money can't buy me the time back. It's priceless.

    Also I could just buy BTC at $2 a piece and make the 10 mill as well. So it's win-win.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    $2? I’d go back to 2012 or whatever and mine it using free electricity in grad school. Hell I’d use their cluster, call the slurm job something like “orbital_freq_prime_factors”

    And I’d break up with my college girlfriend

    And I’d bring my doctoral dissertation back in time so I didn’t have to write it

    Even if the bitcoins didn’t work out, maybe I could buy Pokémon cards for cheap and sell them

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Go through blue door to choose red door instead.

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    [–] 27 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Blue door is essentially erasing your own existence. Why do people even view it as an option? The me that made mistakes created the me today. If I erase those mistakes I wouldn't exist. Just some other guy with an easy life.

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    [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    Read, give me that money there are more mistakes to be made.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    Blue door would mean having to relive my childhood years being forced to go to church and Christian school, but without the indoctrination that made it feel like it was a good thing. That would be torture.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Red Door cause I know myself enough to know I'm gonna make all the same mistakes even if I had perfect recollection of years of details I don't even remember now.

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    [+] 17 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 15 points 3 years ago*

    Who decides what is a "mistake" and what is "fixed"? I feel like going through the blue door would trap you in some kind of infinite loop

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    Why worry about the past when you can have a brighter future with an extra 10 million cash?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Blue door without question. Even if there was a stipulation that I couldn't invest in stocks or bitcoin or do anything else that would make me rich.

    I fantasise about going back and doing it all again, not making huge changes, but little ones, living my life with the knowledge and security I have now, so I would be able to enjoy my childhood instead of stressing about the future, I could be kinder to people around me and help them when they were struggling. I could tell the people I loved that I loved them instead of keeping those feeling held back due to insecurity. I could spend more time with my pets when I was "too busy" before. I could start the hobbies and sports I ended up loving as a child, and actually have the chance to be competitive at them.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    I’ve seen enough of Silicon Valley to know you take the money and run.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Red. No amount of fixing mistakes will ever repair my lifelong depression.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Does "not buying Bitcoin for $1" count as a mistake or not?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    After walking into the blue door the first mistake it corrects is that I should have picked the red door.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    I don't have any major regrets worth fixing, even though I've made some major mistakes. However, all of my current problems could be solved with $10M. Give me the money

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    This is going to be very age related I think for most folks. Myself blue door after making and taking with me a list of lottery numbers and dates along with major sporting event outcomes and horse races for good measure. Oh also stocks along with buy sell dates and value on those dates.

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    [+] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Am I the only one who thinks there haven't been big 'mistakes" in their life, just, you know, life? I mean, sure, there are things I would do differently given the chance, but not something I would call big mistakes. I would definitely go for the money - I would even pay money not to have to go though my teens again lol

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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Time travel way way back to when the first fish crawled on land.

    And step on it.

    You're welcome.

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Red door, I'm not very unhappy with my previous choices

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Stanley walked through the red door.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Blue door for sure. I can invest early in a ton of stuff that would get me way above 10 mil. And in this economy, not investing was a mistake.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Red Door. Fuck dealing with my life again during that time. Plus, the butterfly effect would be a major concern.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I've made many mistakes in life, still I like the person I've become. And I'm still absolutely in love with my husband. For 23 years now - wouldn't trade that for a new life.

    So red it is!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Easily the money. There were many things in life that didn’t go quite right for me, but there was a lot that did as well. If I muck around with what already happened, I might end up worse than I did.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Red. People won't care about my mistakes if they're drinking mojitos on my yacht.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    10 mil in hand. Had to make mistakes to learn and get better.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You are a result of your personal experiences. Going back and changing would make you an entirely different person.

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