NickyJ
Retired Narrator
Lot's of money would be great, but how could I use it if I don't exist? (This kind of reminds me of the Outer Limits episode "Time to Time", only no money was involved in it.)
Would you go back in time to prevent your own birth for $1b?
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strijder20
Wallowing in irony
As I said, you exist in all the possible scenarios you can end up in (tautology).
Dreadnought
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I'd do the mission 100%. No doubt.
It is a reflection of my world view. Perhaps my greatest vice is my "greed". I don't even see it as a major risk. If I'm dead, I won't give a rat's bladder about the outcome. But if I succeed, it'll be awesome because I'd be rich for the rest of my life. The end.
Graceheart the Leopard
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No; I wouldn't exist to enjoy the money.
AlpsStranger
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I'll play Russian Roulette with a half-full revolver RIGHT NOW for a Billion dollars. Anyone who says they wouldn't is a liar.
Their maps app still isn't working?
Anyway, I'd do it. It is seriously interesting science which wouldn't be possible otherwise (per the scenario) and I think science is one of the few things worth dying for. Also, the possibility of large amounts of cash would help.
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
His question is about preventing birth. Not transferring money.
There are simpler experiments that could be done first. For instance, a machine could be sent back in time to destroy it's factory. The results of that experiment could give a lot of confidence to the results of this one.
However, it's the moral dilemma here that would prevent me from going.
However, it's the moral dilemma here that would prevent me from going.
Let the scientists send one of their own group back. Scientists need to take responsibility for their own actions/thinking by trying it (whatever experiment "it" is) on themselves.
Dreadnought
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Why? The whole point is that they are compensating you for your work by paying you $1 billion.
caketastydelish
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I hate my life. I'd do it for free, and HOPE that it knocks me out of existence.
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warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Actually no, I haven't seen that movie yet and it hasn't been on my mind.. Pure coincidence, that. Is it worth seeing? I guess it's possible that it was subconsciously inspired by it - now that I think about it there are ads for the thing EVERYWHERE
Either way, I haven't been able to keep up with the thread cause... things are really busy at work and I haven't been sleeping much. I hope y'all think it's a worthy enough thought experiment, which having re-read my opening post, I think it is.
I'll have to get back to this once I get some rest.. which, keeping in mind that I'm waking up at 8am for the Chelsea/Arsenal game is probably not going to happen until Sunday
If they think their experiment is worth risking a human life, let it be one of theirs, not somebody else's. Of course if a non-scientist freely volunteers to be a guinea pig, that's fine.
But too many guinea pigs (of whatever species) are NOT volunteers, and that is FAR from fine.
This experiment means depriving my grandfather of the joy of kids, and my parent and his/her siblings their existence. Money is meaningless.
(So, no.)
(So, no.)
Dreadnought
Deity
But that's what the money is for! If they don't want to do it themselves (for whatever reason), then they offer compensation to someone willing to do it in their stead.
classical_hero
In whom I trust
Considering this is an Apple product, I simply refuse to use any of their products.
It's pretty good, going by the buzz from friends. Not mind-blowingly great, or anything, but worth a movie theater trip.
I'd do it, but I'd hope that we're working on a semi-permeable or predestined timeline, so that either my great-grandfather wasn't really my progenitor (adoption, adulterous wife etc) or that something in the late 19th Century conspires to ensure that my relatives are born on schedule.
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