A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12770326

Rules:

  1. The time traveller is able to travel backward and forward through time (max forward is 2074) and they can only transport things that can fit in a small backpack.
  2. You can choose when the 3 hours begin but it has to be in 2024 and once it has begun the timer can’t be reset or stopped.
  3. They will answer to the best of their ability but imagine this is a random person from 2074.
A_Random_Idiot,

Ask if they come from a utopia world, a shittier version of this world, or a post apocalypse world.

if its anything but a utopia world, ask who we have to get rid of to push us towards the utopia world.

Schlomocucumber,
@Schlomocucumber@lemmy.world avatar

if when its anything but a utopia world, ask who we have to get rid of to push us towards the utopia world.

morgunkorn,
@morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Try to get pregnant with them to create a time paradox

WhereGrapesMayRule,

Unfortunately everyone is obsessed with anal 50 years from now so it doesn’t go your way.

SkaveRat,

dm;hs

morgunkorn,
@morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Ah, well I’ll try anyway :-)

WhereGrapesMayRule,

Starts building time machine

Schlomocucumber,
@Schlomocucumber@lemmy.world avatar

so it doesn’t go your way.<

You sure?

Anticorp,
  1. Kill the time traveler
  2. Acquire his time machine
  3. Whatever I want
ilinamorato,

Kill? No no no no.

“Hey, time traveler. Do you live in a sucky future?”

  • “No, not really sucky.” “Ok then, if you go back to your time and send the machine back to me, I will put my entire fortune into a single bank account with your name on it, in any country and bank in the entire world you think is best. I will then take a few brief trips of my own and send the machine back to you. Deal?”
  • “Yes, future is the most sucky.” “Would you prefer to stay here, then, and be a god among men, while I take a joyride?”
bunkyprewster,

When we go back in time, we worry about changing the past. But we expect this person from the future to tell us all the stuff so we can fuck around with (for them) things that already happened.

sanguinepar,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

True, but the consequences of anything we do will already have happened for them anyway.

logicbomb,

This one is easy. I would simply do what they tell me to do. After all, since they came back to see me, it’s certainly because the future me sent them back in time.

If it wasn’t me that sent them back in time, then it’s probably a set up, and I would be powerless to resist it.

If they insisted on my ordering them around, I’d have them bring back a copy of their Wikipedia from 50 years in the future, and then I’d try to use the rest of the time to figure out the physics behind time travel, and see if I can’t get plans for a time machine.

Danterious,

Think of it more as a summoning ritual. You accidently pull in a time traveller from that year.

Also what would you do with a time machine?

logicbomb,

There are few theoretically possible technologies as overwhelmingly powerful as time machines. Even an extraordinarily weak time machine, for example, one that could only move you a few minutes back and forth, would be enough to make me insanely wealthy, assuming that it wasn’t cost prohibitive to run.

Quetzalcutlass,

“You said to tell you nothing because, and I quote, ‘spoilers’. I’m just here to see what you were like before it happened.”

I would totally send someone backwards in time just to mess with myself.

NightAuthor, (edited )

Are they able to effectively teleport? Or do they just time travel where they stand?

Danterious,

Good question. Well any form of time travel would be teleporting since the earth is moving. So I guess they solve teleportation to.

NightAuthor,

Well, for money then, definitely have them travel to a time and place with a hyper inflated currency, and then bring it back in time to have tons of money. I think this might technically be a form of arbitrage.

Hmm… assassination would be pretty easy, but idk who

SayJess,
@SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Shit just have them rob a mint from like the 1800’s. This way you could say that the money has been passed down, as you auction it for a butt load.

morgunkorn,
@morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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    Danterious,

    I think you responded to the wrong place.

    morgunkorn, (edited )
    @morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Correct, sorry for that I’ll fix that :)

    Danterious,

    no problem just wanted to help.

    foggy,

    Ask for the names of the biggest companies over the last 50 years, and roughly when they peaked.

    I’d ask about what industries emerged, and what industries support those emergent industries.

    Basically I’d end up a trillionaire.

    cloudless,
    @cloudless@feddit.uk avatar

    Then you will have the biggest company ever. You created a loop in time.

    afraid_of_zombies,

    Point out that I have no immunities to Covid-74 then I assume fall on the ground with bleeding eyes.

    skybreaker, (edited )
    @skybreaker@lemmy.world avatar

    First, determine the state of the planet 50 years from now. This will largely dictate my next set of questions.

    Is the earth on fire? Is there rampant suffering? What was the biggest catastrophe to mankind in that time?

    Did humanity actually do something to help the earth? Once I learn this, I can invest in that thing to simultaneously push that technology forward and benefit from it myself.

    Is any single person held responsible for bad things that have happened? Unlikely, but if so, I would work on assassinating that person.

    Resol,
    @Resol@lemmy.world avatar

    Ask if an episode of Inanimate Insanity actually released on December 37, 2074. And no, I did not write that incorrectly by mistake. I actually meant to say December Thirty-Seventh.

    Noodle07,

    Ask for the most recent version of dwarf fortress

    dutchkimble,

    Ask them to get a sports almanac back, and new seasons of shows I’m waiting for, and perhaps a copy of GTA6 if it’s out by 2074

    Kolanaki,
    @Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

    I don’t even wanna know how fucked up shit will be 50 years from now.

    someguy3, (edited )

    I say the cliche which stocks to invest in. They will know which companies are big at various times. Lotto numbers if they can get that. Blah blah blah.

    After that I’m not sure I want to know the other things. It takes the fun out of life.

    I mean there are things that you have to worry about like personal safety. I I doubt there will be another World War so I won’t have to worry about the draft or death. Maybe major disasters so I won’t be there. Civil unrest but I’m fortunate enough to live in Canada.

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