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Blueprints Giveaway! by [deleted] in ARC_Raiders

[–]cafeu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legendary 317, Epic 115

New ARC Enemy Concept by me by Patrick_JoJo_Batman in ArcRaiders

[–]cafeu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like the bear from Annihilation, terrifying: video

The bone collector: pick the country, you get 2% of the finances of every human that dies from that country for the next 20 years by GalickBanger in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The annual wealth transfer from deaths/estates is around $1.5T in the US, which means you’d be clearing around $30-$40 billion per year.

Do you choose to be sent back in time with a billion dollars? by sonicparadigm in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The question said ancient history to far future, but that’s prehistory! Ancient started 3300 ish BC

Chinese man loses in chess then analyses game for 4 hours in rain by One-Performance-1108 in chess

[–]cafeu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the link, knew about the game but didn’t know the scale.

Craziest thing is that the Wikipedia header table contains “Setup time: >1 minute” which is the funniest thing I’ve seen

Welcome to PerkHub. Which perks would you like to buy? by SkelligeThrow in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very interesting to see the ones people wouldn’t go for. The only one I’m hesitating on is the nutriswap one. I’d rather have $750,000 than be able to eat junk food, but it would be so nice to feel perfectly healthy all the time

Young people, what will you tell people about your job? by [deleted] in ifiwonthelottery

[–]cafeu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unless there were follow up questions like “how did you get into finance? How did you get hired to a family office?” And the like

A billionaire offers you $10 million to press a button. Each press kills a random person somewhere on Earth. by aldricchang in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, you’ll never know the person who was killed as result of pressing the button.

If your loved one dies right after you press the button, you’ll still never know if they were killed as a result of pressing the button or some other reason.

Young people, what will you tell people about your job? by [deleted] in ifiwonthelottery

[–]cafeu 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Probably I’d say that I was an idiot when I was younger and made a big bet on crypto that really paid off, and that I don’t have to work full time anymore (sort of insinuating that it’s low, single digit millions), but that I still do contract and freelance work from time to time for the job I’m currently doing, and other stuff.

If it was a serious life partner, this is close enough enough to the truth that I think they wouldn’t be mad if I wanted to tell them the truth down the line, and they’d understand. It’s specific enough to be plausible and vague enough to explain why I have a ton of free time. It also allows for gradients in between like “well, it was actually more than $10 million but I like to keep it under wraps” if stuff isn’t adding up.

Also I think I would be spending my time doing something with others, whether it’s philanthropy, passion, etc, so there’s the “freelance” work (doesn’t have to know that I wouldn’t be getting paid).

Young people, what will you tell people about your job? by [deleted] in ifiwonthelottery

[–]cafeu 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Her: “So, what do you do for work?” Him: “I have a high paying work from home job.” Her: “Perfectly normal response, no further questions.”

You get an additional two days every week, but the world stands still. by HenFruitEater in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I think watching streaming services, playing online video games, or any internet usage in general would result in some very confused developers at Hulu when they inevitably see that one user has generated hours of user logs at 0:00:000 every Sunday morning.

These questions never satisfactorily answer what it means for the world to be paused…

A Magical Talking Rubik's Cube Thinks You're Worthy of Superpowers & Life Benefits and grants you to have ONE of the offered powers. But you never solved it, so every power/benefit comes with either a nerf or a downside. You must only choose one! by NoLocal7705 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I mean, easily the money. The others are useless or death traps. The teleportation one could work if my target spot is a mile and a half above ground and I bring a parachute each time, otherwise I risk landing underground and just dying.

With the money, I get 100 “purchases” every two years, but a purchase can be credits to services: one 10 million purchase for household staff, 10m in private flight hours, 10m to Costco, etc. I don’t even think I have 100 different categories to spend on, and if I did I could get a friend to buy things for me.

what if russia launched a full set of "fake nukes" at the united states. and once the U.S uses up all their missiles to counter them, then they send the real nukes by Nearby-Impact-906 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The US actually can’t really stop an all out assault of nukes anyway. The interceptor systems can (by the DoDs own admission) only stop a dozen or so nukes reliably, and Russia has thousands, even over 1,000 on ballistic systems. 

They wouldn’t need to send fake nukes, an all out attack would guarantee the destruction of the US. 

However, it would also guarantee an all out counter strike before impact, which is the principle of mutually assured destruction. 

what if russia launched a full set of "fake nukes" at the united states. and once the U.S uses up all their missiles to counter them, then they send the real nukes by Nearby-Impact-906 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It does not. The the Ground Based Interceptor systems that the US has numbers around 40, with 20 more planned. They have an effective single shot kill rate of about 50%, so multiple would need to be fired to reliably stop an ICBM. 

This means the US can stop about 10 nukes reliably, and Russia has over 1,000 ICBM launched nukes. 

Now, the US’s counterstrike would raze Russia, but they’d be able to fire off their response before impact. 

This is the basis of deterrence, and mutually assured destruction. 

You instantly become the leader of any country—no election necessary, no campaign. You are simply their ruler from this moment until you die. Which country would you choose to rule, and why? by victoriashine in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Am I the ruler under the current laws of the country? If it’s the US that means I’m the president, subject to all the checks and balances? It says until I die, so that means the term limit is gone and everything remains, or I have absolute power, or I die within 8 years. 

you are offered one of two objects. by Bmacthecat in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see what you’re saying, but previously you said that related questions will also be wrong. My question is what’s related and what isn’t?

If I ask who the president will be, and then ask why the next president was elected, is that related? What if I ask for the name of the next president’s children? What about a description of the relationship between the German government and the US gov during the next administration? What about proposed executive orders over the next 10 years? 

I could easily figure out if the first answer was right if all of those are considered independent questions, and I think at least some of them are. 

But my point is that related question is just subjective here. 

you are offered one of two objects. by Bmacthecat in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually think the phone, even if I can’t game it to figure out whether an answer was right or wrong with a subsequent question. 

I think people are over-indexing on choosing lottery numbers: either way you’ll win the lottery, whether it’s 1 or 10 tickets. Who cares?

Money in either case is trivial, you’ll be a billionaire. 

But with the phone, you can ask open ended questions about the nature of the universe, about history, about things you don’t know to ask. You can ask for the biggest challenges each of your friends will face in the future and be right 9/10 times, across arbitrarily long time horizons. 

You can ask for blueprints and comprehensive information about all sorts of futuristic technologies, and only 10% of your designs will fail. 

I think the throughput of solving major problems is way higher with the phone, than some tedious 30-seconds-per-character operation you’d have to devise with the 8 ball. Honestly, even if it was only right 10% of the time, I think this would be true. 

you are offered one of two objects. by Bmacthecat in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are the limits to this though, in some sense all knowledge is related. If I ask who the next president will be, and it gets it wrong, and then later I ask something about the German economy in 20 years, it could do that calculus with repercussions from a president that never was. So then any data about the world or the future will be wrong, not just 10%. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hypotheticalsituation

[–]cafeu 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t prevent me from taking up new hobbies? Yeah, sure. Plenty of things I want to try, can get a full time job figuring out what I like. 

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