Obviously a hypothetical scenario. There is no way to pass on the knowledge to anyone else. Time freezes for you only, and once you have your answer you are out of this world.

The question can allow you to see into the past, present and future and gain comprehension of any topic/issue. But it’s only one question.

Edit: the point isn’t “how to cheat death”. You can’t. Your body is frozen and there is nothing you can do with this knowledge other than knowing it, and die. So if you would rather be frozen in a limbo just thinking of numbers for eternity, be my guest.

Such a variety of replies, it’s been really interesting to read them!

What would you want to know? Personally I’d want to see a timelapse or milestone glimpses of humanity’s future until the end of Earth’s existence (if we survive that long)

  • @[email protected]
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    01 year ago

    The day we are able to predict the movement of a speck of dust on a planet in another galaxy is the day where randomness will stop managing the universe.

    • @kromem
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      -11 year ago

      You are conflating local vs nonlocal knowledge.

      The system could be nonrandom with all states known while the knowledge of that entire state in any moment of time could be impossible to know within the system.

      In fact, we’re increasingly finding that the concept of absolute local knowledge in and of itself is on shakier grounds than previously thought.

      But the ways in which that occurs can be explained in several ways that are deterministic non-locally and thus in an overall system that can be explicitly described and predicted.