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1y ago

Which pill do you choose?

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I'd take the $10 mil. Childhood seems like it would be a lot less fun if I had to go through it again but now with the jaded mind of a middle aged man.
I can for sure find a way to have fun with ten million dollars though 😉
- Yeah my childhood sucked, and knowing I'd have another 12 years of abuse with nobody taking me seriously because I'm a kid? No thanks. I could put $10mil to good use right now.
  
  Mine sucked too but I'm trans and would kill to have known that information from the getgo rather than finding out in my 20s
  
  I'm really sorry to hear that you had to go through that, and you can tell me to fuck right off if you don't want to think about it, but you got me wondering.
  Do you think if you went back, you could use what you know today to prevent/avoid it and see how that changes your life?
  
  My childhood also sucked, but I'd go back.
  My parents weren't monsters, they were flawed people doing what they thought was best... If I could go back and clearly assert myself and my needs? Especially with what I know now?
  I'd take that deal.
  Not too mention, I'm a programmer. I know every major advancement we've made in the past decades...If I designed a language in the early 00's, I would be worshipped by all programmers. I could've made Uber when the iphone launched, and never took a dime in investments. I'd also jump forward AI tech by a couple decades - I could make the world unrecognizable. I'd be a household name, although I'd probably use a pseudonym
- 10 mil is definitely easier, but if you memorized important global events and stock market crashes or explosions you could potentially build an empire. 10 mil would be chump change at that point. You could potentially maneuver yourself into positions of extreme power and help to shape the world, possibly change it for the better in the process.
  
  True, but in this case I'd only be six years old. I'd be too young to really do anything about future events, and anyone who could do something probably wouldn't listen to a kid warning then about politics and finance. Somehow I feel like by the time I'd be old enough to make any of that information useful I would have either forgotten a lot of it or ceased to care. I might choose differently if I was starting at age like 25 or 30 though
  
  Gotta somehow get seed money. Even investing your allowance would only get you a couple of thousand. You're investing doesn't really pay off until you're old enough and rich enough to put real money in the game.
  
  but if you memorized important global events and stock market crashes or explosions you could potentially build an empire.
  That is the thing when these kinds of topics appear, I totally would commit the same mistakes all over again, hence a boring childhood (I still think I'd go back though).
- $10MM is instant retirement money.
- Yep, red pill would be 3rd place after 'neither'. I don't need the burden of that knowledge at 6, especially without the power to act on it.
- Plus, all of my friends would effectively be dead if I took the red pill.
  My 30 year-old mind is not going to be able to get along with my friends when they were also six, and no grownups are going to want to be friends with me as a six year-old, besides pedophiles.
  It'd be a very lonely few decades, and no amount of stock exchange billions are worth that for me.
  I'm definitely taking the money now.

If I get back to 2005 I can easily get more than 10 millions by the time it's 2024 again. Plus all the other perks of restarting your life
- Easy. Bitcoin.
  
  Zoom and GameStop stock.
  
  Yeah, get into Bitcoin at the peak investment age of ten.
  Edit: JFC y'all, I'm middle-aged.
- Think of all the time that you could waste again!
- You become 6 again, but it's still 2024 and you really freak out your parents. No getting to know the future.
- No way I'm going through childhood again. Mine sucked.

Do I go back in time to when I was six (red pill then) or am I 6 in 2024 (blue pill then)?
- If I go back in time am I morally obligated to try to stop 9/11?
  
  Did you see that episode of Family Guy? I think world events still have to happen.
  
  Your best bet would be to set fires in both towers, causing their evacuation.
- I didn't even think of the possibility of becoming 6 now. That's a good monkeys paw scenario.

If I choose red, I wouldn’t be able to guarantee my daughter would be born even if I met my wife because of, well, biology, but if choose the blue pill I can make sure she’ll have a huge head start on life from this point out, so blue pill it is.
- Exactly! In the past, I would have chosen the red pill to change decisions that I made in the past. But today there are some things in my life that are not directly the result of conscious decisions, but that I would not want to miss.
- Yeah same. I would love to avoid so much pain and suffering I went through, so much wasted time and bad decisions, but I would not risk it if I didn't end up with my spouse and child. So, blue pill all the way. Also, 10 mil would actually solve 95% of all our problems to be honest.
- Wholesome take
- You can guarantee that she won't be born

Money. I ain't doing this shit again.
- Amen
- But you can do it better the second time. Also you can be rich if when you turn 18 you invest in things you know succeed like Apple, Microsoft, amazon.. granted I dunno how young you are, but I'd be going back to the early 90s, and could invest in stuff in the early 2000s
  
  It doesn't matter how young or old anyone is. Living another 12 years as a child is not worth any amount of money.
  Unless you really love the idea of going thru K-8 and then highschool again as an adult in a kids body...

Used to want the red pill but I have a kid now. Resetting would almost assuredly cause me to end up with a different kid.
I’m team blue.
- There's a related movie that I highly recommend: About Time.
  
  Very good movie
  
  Oh yeah I love that movie. I have it on my server.
- This. My kids and my pets - I’d be haunted for the rest of my life knowing I traded them in. I’ll take the 10 mill and be happy.

Blue. No mistake reversion or bitcoin investing would outweigh possibly never meeting my partner again. With Blue, I have everything I could ever want from this life, with red, I may lose everything important to me now.
- For $10M, I might just retire, buy a house and raise my kid.
  Sure beats having to struggle at work.
  
  Absolutely. Anyone who would go back in time purely to make more money is a fool if they think having more than 10 million dollars would make a tangible difference on their quality of life. Who cares if you make a billion off of bitcoin? For 10 mil you can be extremely comfortable and don't have to relive some of the most awkward years of your life. Only way it would be different is if your choices got someone killed or something.
- That's a brilliant way to answer.
- Reminds me of the plot to Shrek 4, where he has to find Fiona and get her to fall in love all over again.
- That was my thought too. Too risky.
- So true. My wife and I are high school sweet hearts but also both very different people now. The boy she fell in love with initially I couldn't properly emulate. We were deep into Christianity and even met at church. We've since both lost our faith. I wouldn't be able to pretend without her seeing through my bullshit.
- what if you didnt restart life in the current time but went back in time when you were 6?
  
  Still a massive chance I would never meet my partner.

Blue pill. Restarting with all my knowledge, I might end up not meeting my soulmate and not having my kid, because of randomness. I can't have that.

Easy. Blue. No way am I doing this shit again.
- Best comment 😂

I think between being a cute kid and BEGGING my dad who likes to gamble to invest EVERYTHING on Yahoo! From 1994 until the pets.com Superbowl commercial ad aired, and then just hardlined him into selling, he's probably be able to cut me 10 mil.
Let alone that Id be saying "Microsoft! Coca Cola! Amazon! Apple! Oracle! Pfizer! Johnson & Johnson! Berkshire Hathaway! Wal Mart! And in war years, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin! Intel! Amd! Nvidia!" The whole time.
I'd be a fucking billionaire. Straight up. It would t be gambling, it would be a free money glitch.
Timing Bitcoin right?? Doge?? Get outta here. I'd have more money than anyone on earth.
If I could redo the life I was given with all my current knowledge, 10M would be like the average size of a charity donation or a gift that I would be giving.
- Nobody with money to invest is going to listen to a manic six-year-old.
  
  I think you're mistaking how little would need to be invested.
  I think my dad would start listening to his god-omen stock predicting son after a few missed billions.
  "Dad listen, my college tuition? Fuck it. Put it down on Bitcoin in Jan of 2009 and sell on November 9th 2021 for ~$25T."
  I'd have over 10 trillion cash after taxes. Literally would have more cash than anyone on earth.
  
  A six year old that can predict major events? Besides. Just wait and invest in Bitcoin yourself or Google, Apple or MS in college depending on your age. The latter isn't as big of a jump but easily many multiples.

Easy, give me the blue pill. My mistakes and choices have brought me to where I am and have made me who I am. I wouldn't change my life for anything, especially not to correct a few mistakes. Most importantly I may not have met my wife or have my kids if I change anything. I'll take the money and use it to improve the life I have.
- That is a good answer bud. I totally relate

My brain says the blue pill because money.
My heart says the red pill because I miss my soulmate and would give anything for a chance with her again.
- I'm sorry you lost your soulmate.
- The one thing is would you end up with your soul mate again and even if you did it wouldn't be the same relationship you had back then. I thought about this and have 3 kids and don't know if I would want to give up on my kids because there's no way I could say goodbye to my kids and never see them again.

Red pill. You can make money, but you can't make time.
- I'm putting my allowance into msft and amazon.
  
  See also dogecoin and bitcoin
- Red pill is too vague. Do you go back in time to when you were 6? If so then red pill is good because you could just achieve all you've already achieved faster and you have more time for other stuff. Do you just turn into a 6 year old? No thanks, not about to restart on hard mode.
  Also is that time really that valuable if you're going to spend a significant part of it threading the same ground?
  That why I'd take the blue pill, clearer outcome and with 10 mil I could easily improve the quality of my time. For instance by completely ditching work I have much more time to see my children grow up.
  
  Clear outcome? If red is "become undocumented child in 2023" blue can't be simple.
  Blue would have you watching over your shoulder for who the money was taken from, or the money would be taken off you as evidence of crime, since no one has millions from nowhere, and it'll be very hard to hide
- That depends on if you want time

While I could easily get more than $10mil with my current knowledge (assuming I go back in time to 6yrs old), I would not have the same wife or child as I do now, and there's no way I'll give them up, so I'll just take the $10mil now .

With the red pill, do I go back in time to when I was 6 with all of my knowledge or become a different 6 year old now with all of my knowledge?
- Becoming some random six-year-old would be pretty jarring
  
  Yea, or do I become me as a six year old in the modern day?
  If it was a monkey paw type of situation you'd probably become a six year old child in pre-historic times.

Red one gives you both. Literally. Just buy Bitcoin or something.
- Except if you have a pretty good life and don't want to mess up the timeline that led you there.
- The red pill sounds like absolute horror. I'd desperately try to get all the good things in my life back, and probably mess shit up bad.
  Though on the other hand, there are obviously a bunch of "you were a young idiot"-type mistakes that I'd want to undo...
- Except it doesn't specify that you go back in time to when you were 6 years old, but that you "restart your life at 6 years of age" so a fairly reasonable interpretation would be that you'll be a 6 year old in 2024. Monkeys paw and all that.
  Now, I personally think it's more interesting if it did mean that you went back in time.
  
  Thats actually even better than just restarting. I already want to make it to 120 to see what 3 different centuries looks so this would make that unrealistic goal so much more accomplishable. Also i will have an idea of what medical things im going to look into and see what options i would have as a kid today vs 40+ years ago
  
  I'd worry about the bad side of the $10M if it's monkey paw.
  Anyway I want to see the sea level rise chaos. So no down side
- It gives you both, but at what cost? If you have a spouse or child, that's probably not going to happen again in round two. You're going to make different decisions that take you on a different life path. Even if you made the same decisions, is your significant other actually going to fall in love with you when you're going on the first date with 10 years of history already? You're not going to bring that new relationship energy with you and you're going to seem weird since you already know them so well. Even if you win them over, you won't have the same kid. The odds of the same sperm finding the same egg are millions to one, possibly even higher since you probably won't do it on that exact day. What about all your lifelong friends? Are you actually going to form meaningful relationships at 6 or 10 years old when you have the mind of a 30 year old, or whatever you are by that time? Probably not. I think the cost to go back would be very high.
  
  Completely depends on your age
  As a person who didn't yet get love of my life or children, red pill is a pure win
- That supposes you timetravel back, which is probably what OP meant. But not 100% sure :-)

You could get a lot more for buying $20 of BTC in 2010 and selling it in November 2021.

There's a fuck ton that I would know is coming and have absolutely no way of stopping. That is fucking hell.

With the red pill, the blue pill is redundant.
- Imagine all the sweet sweet bitcoin that you'll sell to invest in Gamestop stock at just the right time.
  
  I'd probably make the first money on Apple. Maybe on the up part of the dot com bubble.
  Betting on elections too.
  People looking at your history would notice your exceptional luck
  I wonder if the effort to make money would break some of the big moving companies, prevent Bitcoin
  Gotta remember to big short 2007
- It's just a question of whether or not you want to repeat, for many that's a solid no

Since I'm married, blue pill. If I wasn't, red pill all day. I'd be a billionaire by the age of 20
- Same, though honestly with my bad memory, I'm not sure I'd do all that much better with the red pill. Itd be hard for me to put together enough seed money to make a decent return, and I don't remember specific dates well enough that I think I could convince my parents about it.

No brainer. Restart at 6 years old. Time is priceless.
- Red pill all the way. Personal experience gains to be had. Also of course there is the prospect of crypto billionairedom.
  
  Red pill effectively kills your current spouse and kids if you have any. Also trying to re-engineer the relationship with your original spouse all over again seems like it'd be really creepy. If you go back, you effectively need to find someone else. Couldn't do that.
  
  Depending on your starting point there's a lot better opportunities out there that are less vulnerable to losing it all to a random hacker.
- No brainer. Take the money. Global warming exists. WWIII might be happening. What's the point in being a depressed 6 year-old?
- Oh hell no, I don't want to go through school again. Teenagers are horrible to each other.

Red.
I could see my Mom again.
- Money is just a tool to get the things we want anyway.
  
  Money can't bring back mother

There's nearly 0% odds I end up with the same wife and kids twice and I hit the jackpot the first time around. Give me the money.
- But with enough money you can buy a better kid!
  
  But this one will grow up to be a goat!
- It would be so creepy trying for the same partner. So much of relationship building is learning about each other and you'll never be surprised by their side of those conversations

Wait like restart as in go back in time to the year I was 6 or restart as in become a 6 year old in 2024. Because if it's the former hell yeah stocks, bitcoin, sports betting back to the future style. If it's the latter fuck that.

There are pros and cons. First of all, let's assume you go back to the year you were 6 instead of becoming a 6 year old in 2024 (oof). Being an adult in a child's mind, you could basically be a demi-God. You could pick stocks, pick world series winners, and even pick winning lottery numbers if you had that type of thing written down. You would also have your emotional development that you have right now. You would be seen as a wise sage-like golden child. Downside is, if you are used to having a sex life, well, kiss that good bye for at least 12 years. Another downside is living through the period of time when you're going through puberty or have to live with an abusive relative because you're a minor and can't do shit.
I think, all said and done, I'll just take the 10 mil.
- Assuming I'm back to 6 years old in 1980, there's no guarantee stocks, bitcoin, lottery, etc. would have the same outcome. Alternative timeline, so many variables. No thanks.
  Alternatively, 6 years old in 2024. Nope.
  Blue pill, please.
- for at least 12 years
  Were you never a young teen?

I'm taking the money, I don't want to be a child again.

I'm not sure if people here realize this, but the interest from $10m is approximately four to eight hundred thousand dollars per year.
So, with ten million, one could instantly retire and never ever have to work again.
That's priceless freedom to me, and it wouldn't require deleting almost all of my friends, relationships, experiences, and who I am.

Red pill.
While I could retire right now with the blue pill, I wouldn't be happy.
Red pill means I could spend more time and cultivate a better relationships with the people who actually matter to me. I'd spend a lot more time with my great grandparents.
I could also focus on being true to who I am and not being who I thought others wanted. Basically be who I was in college... But now at 6.
Of course, I could make all the right investments to make a lot of money.
I wouldn't want to just go into the same career. While I might for a while, honestly I'd have the knowledge and money to take a run at a political career.

Red pill, because it'll eventually take me back to this moment and then I'll pick the blue pill.
- Except not since you would have to replicate your current life to the smallest thing imaginable, and if you didn't it would cause a butterfly effect meaning you probably wouldn't get this opportunity anymore
  
  They just need to not be critical to the creation of lemmy
  
  That's assuming your have to fall into specific parameters to get this offer.
- You would not need the blue pill at that point. Just invest in Google and Microsoft and get some early bitcoin

Blue. I'm pretty solid at the moment. I'm sure I'd lose my son if I started over at 6. So, definitely blue.
- Thought the same. 10 Mil and having the people I love in my life is enough. Just don’t forget to wire the 10 Mil.

Blue pill. I never want to relive my childhood trauma again 🤑

Blue. Knowing what I know would make me a fucked up 6 year old. I wouldn't be able to make friends, I would creep people out or even end up in a mental institution. 10 million wold fix all my current problems. And there wold be a lot left for hookers and coke.

Even keeping time travel mechanics and ethics on the side, restarting my life at age 6 probably won’t be very helpful until I become something like 15 so I could actually do something with the knowledge, otherwise I’d probably be called a crazy kid, and couple that with the chances of me somehow fucking up everything and I would much rather have the blue pill.

6 years old all the way. Ok yeah sure, investments, Bitcoin, be rich. However, I'd love to relive parts of my past that I would want repaired that money couldn't exactly fix.
I'd be a better older brother to my younger brother. Hang out with him, take him to his football games, take him to movies, play video games with him. Instead of being the douchebag party guy that ignored him. We have a good relationship now, but I wish I could've given him better memories when he was a kid of his older brother and guided him more/better.
I'd help my Mom with her addiction that took ahold of her because she couldn't cope with what happened in her childhood. Maybe she'd still be around today, instead of me being so self absorbed in my own stupid shit.
Avoid the bad relationships I was in, and have the knowledge to recognize when a relationship will go badly. Including the parts of myself that help make the relationship bad.
Maybe the money would help with some of these things, but I really think my attention and presence would be more impactful.

Red pill easy. Make note of all the stock stuff that comes over the next couple decades, gain more than 10 mill and have more life experience in the tougher times.
- It doesn't say you go back in time to being six years old, you start over as a six year old. A six year old in 2024.
  Hashtag monkeys paw.
  
  Ah, I didn't read the contract correctly. Blue pill it is then, no one wants to grow up in 2040's.
- It's even easier than that. Red pill, then remember to start mining bitcoin with your PC in 2009. You'll be a multi billionaire in under a decade.
- Now you just have to convince someone to buy the stocks for you.

Six year old, easy choice - do something mildly special for a kid that age and get on TV then when they ask you a question the answer is 'well it was a dream i had, there was a pale horse riding towards us snd the horses name was Tod, it was going to run over everyone but an angel told me to call out to the faithful and save them....'
Kid can't even read and from an atheist family then starts quoting bible and making up complex visions and messages no child could ever create - plus very clear predictions that come perfectly true, knowledge of science before it's discovered... Admit it, you'd get sucked into my cult.
Could have a huge portion of the world believing, teach them the need for luxury gay space communism then when we're all living in utopia be like 'oh btw it was just a time travel prank lol'

Am I transported back to 1993 with all the knowledge I have now? Or am I 6 in 2023? Because the first case it becomes ridiculously easy to make 10 million... Just memorize a single set of lottery numbers for a specific time and date... and have a little knowledge to invest in apple as soon as Steve Jobs returns to the company and Tesla when it's founded, and at that point you are a billionaire.

Blue, would be hard to merry my x again, so I still have my son.
- Ho ho ho. Merry ex marrying!
  
  My bad

I take both pills. Try and stop me, motherfucker.

I'd grab both pills and quickly swallow them just to see what would happen. I might end up a 12yo with $5million. I'd be so obnoxious
- This is the only correct answer

Red pill, buy bitcoin, easy win
- Don't buy, produce.
  
  Instructions unclear, I am pregernate
  
  Yoy got it, no buying produce.
- 0.00099 was the lowest price at the start... $500 then wouldnhave gotten you 505,050.50 coins at $50k /per
  Would be $25,252,525,252.526
  That's all you'd need to do.. never mind the knowledge of apple Google Amazon etc stock.
  
  Actually managing to sell that many coins would be pretty difficult. I remember exchanges crashing on the day it peaked as everyone was trying to sell. It'd still be way to make a lot of money though.
- Nothing has been said about time travel though
  
  It must be time travel or it's a bad deal - become 6, also orphan or effective orphan, also undocumented, become a missing person in your old self
  If that was the deal, the millions side would have conditions like it's stolen money and the mob know who has it
  And where's the fun in any of that?

Are we talking $10 M pre or post tax?
Post tax, $10M 100%. Not having to work and retiring immediately would be amazing.
I do like the recursive option of the red pill. Do a few loops and find the optimal path.
- 400 iq play is getting to the red pill multiple times and then taking the blue pill once you're satisfied with your path. Catch me on NG+10 taking the blue pill
  
  Taking the red pill doesn't guarantee you'd end up with the same opportunity. If I knew I would be able to return to the same moment where I could take the pill again I'd obviously do that, but probability is slim.
  
  Would you really want to live that long?
  Let's say I was 40, no fucking way would I reset and reset and reset.
  I assume that you have to reach the same age you first got the pills at. So just 3 resets would be 160 years (+ around 40 more if you stop resetting and die at the average age of death in western countries)
  Personally that sounds like torture. Sure groundhog day was fun the first few times but 160 years? No thanks.

Pro gamee move: Start with red pill, take blue pill when you get back to the point in time where the choice is offered
- Blue pill is irrelevant. You already rich if you can convince family to buy stocks.
- If I were to go back to 1983 I don't think I'd care about 10M

I could transition before puperty

I bet there’s a distinct age group for each one. Older, established, family, doing ok? Take the 10 mil. Don’t want to give up your family and all that. Might be pretty hard for people to give up. 10 mil would be an easy, instant retirement. You can enjoy your remaining years.
Sure, there are going to be some pretty unhappy outliers for whatever reasons, unable to reach a stable relationship, multiple failed relationships, poor financial situation, etc. that would hit the reset button.
Younger folks? Maybe yeah…hit that reboot. Start off with a lot of great knowledge, big nest egg to get a huge leg up on everything, you’ll retire at 40. Many more millions or even a billion with all the knowledge you have. Life would have a good shot at being great.

I'm a useless idiot now and there's not much someone like me can do with that power. Gimmie the 10 mil and fuck off.

Blue pill. I'd miss my wife and kids, and even if I were transported back in time, I doubt I'd do all the required steps to get to them again.

Taking the red pill operates under the assumption that you’ll actually survive to this point in your life again. Maybe you were one second away from dying in a car accident at several points, and taking that red pill will lead to a series of events that causes your death.
- This is the thing for me. I have had too many near misses that aren't even spectacular. I don't know if I could survive the dice roll again like that.
- If you look at the usa, less than 0.5% of children die between the ages of 6 and 18. The least likely age for you to die is 8-9 years old, and from about 12 and up the death chance increases pretty rapidly. A 30 year old is already about twice as likely to die as a 19 year old..
  so for most people this won't apply. If you survived abusive or negligent parents though, maybe it's different
- You could also die tomorrow and the red pill could save you.
  
  I feel like the blue pill is more likely to save you. Especially in countries with bad healthcare.
- By the same logic, you might be seconds away from dying if you take the blue pill, I don't think that's a great argument alone. It's more a trade of time, letting you try to fix any regrets, relive the frivolous times, and buying yourself extra time, at the cost of having to go through dependent days again.
  Does it increase your chance of dying before you can enjoy your reward? Sure.
  Does it also increase the amount of time you get to enjoy it, on average? I'd imagine yes.
- Yep. Red pill here. I had an easy early life. My parents loved me, school was fun and I was good at it
  My town has few dangerous car accidents
  I could keep all my Lego manuals, not let my sister cut the red space men's helmets into red hair
  I was 6 in the 80s
  I probably couldn't stop my sister

Red. Maybe I can stop my mom from being terrible. Also Bitcoin. Also holo first edition Charizard! Also I wanna be in the Fallador massacre on RuneScape! Also I'll get Internet famous!
- I'll be Lee-roy Jen-kins!!
  
  Noooooo, you totally couldn't do it better and planning it could mess it all up!

It's kind of curse to live knowing what's going to happen to our dear ones, but on the other way I could spend some extra time who is not with me now.
Earning $10mil will not be my motive if I am going to live this life again..