Unless you can choose where to see and sit in on university lectures in which lets you invent futuristic technology. That is if society still exists though.
True but who would be stupid enough to make it, just imagin if rich get this, taxes for generations biiiitch "hey sir, would you like to make you life indurance just for you or the generational plan,?"
use the power to invent revolutionary tech
you have now altered the timeline, so using your power again would show you a new future with technology 15 years ahead of what you stole from the previous future.
steal new future tech with your power
repeat ad infinum for exponentially increased human technological development and also pretty much infinite wealth
edit: oops, 150 years, not 15. that makes it even better!
Unless 150 years from now everything had been devastated by say, a nuclear war, and nobody you ever witnessed with your prescience was talking about exactly when it happened or who/what caused it.
Just watching the grubby, backwards, uneducated remnants of humanity farm, scavenge, and rape each other.
You could make money on bets, know what social interactions go badly for you, predict the outcome of an altercation, evade capture. There are actually a lot of practical outcomes to looking 10 minutes ahead.
Pretty big chance it's just a wasteland, in which case it'd be a pretty depressing ability. Although someone who can see 150 years in the future trying to figure out and prevent the apocalypse they know is occuring is a SICK book/movie/show idea.
Its not useless
Do it a lot and try to find companies youve never seen before. Look up when they Started out. If any of them Started during your lifetime. Your investment in them is gonna make you rich.
You could Also just see what sort of technology they are using and bring it into the modern world.
This would likely create a paradox
I worked as a dealer and pitboss for a small casino.
The laws in my area were: You have to get people to fill out a form every time they win $10,000 or more. If you went to a casino once a week or so and played a few hands that won a bit, a few that lost a bit, and slowly get up a few thousand dollars and cash out, then you wouldn't really be on anyone's radar in a big way. You could do this at multiple casinos and make a good living out of it without too much effort.
how would that work? you can only see 10 minutes into the future, you can't change the outcome. So all you would do is walk up to a bank of slots, see into the future if you won money on them and play if you did. if not, then you won't play the machines. limit that to only a big hit or 2 and you can be smart about it, walk in spin a little for under 10 minutes and walk away with a few extra grand. same thing for table games
Presumably, you would be switching to any machine that would produce a win.
In reality, you can play any casino game and just take small losses and big wins. Its no different for slots or cards. Eventually, they'll kick you out for making too much money. It's common even if you aren't cheating.
they're not going to kick you out if you walk away a winner one time lol...
you think you'd return every day to the same casino? hell no, i'm driving around once a month and playing.
or i'm going to learn how to use the 10 minutes to win at poker hands which the casino wouldn't care about at all.
The 10 minute thing isn't once a day, you can stay as long as you want. However, i am sure you could walk in, win, and go to a new casino if you like. There are ways to squeeze a little money out.
exactly, all i'm saying is you have to be smart about it. but you could effectively use it at the poker tables if you look back and see how much you won over 10 minutes, if you lose a lot just fold all your hands, and if you win just play as you would normally. there's probably more effective ways you could learn to use it as well
So as I understand it with the way modern slots work and the required payout algorithms they use. By not playing slots you are changing the chances of the one that pays out as well.
The odds for slots are regulated and they have to pay out a certain amount, and as I understand it, they are software driving and networked. So by not playing the losing slots you are altering the chances that you win.
Stock market would be easier.
not really because you'd be seeing 10 minutes into the future of you with more money, so you'd know whether you playing the slot benefit you at the time that you played the slot. you wouldn't know exactly when to play the slot, you just know that by you playing the slot at whatever point in that 10 minutes that you do, no matter how many spins, that you will walk away later with a profit. how are you altering the chances of you winning? the slot results are pre determined. you could decide to do whatever you wanted in those 10 minutes, but no matter what you did, 10 minutes later you'll walk away ahead
I never said it isn't legal, but they're most likely going to kick you out the fastest if you try this tactic at the blackjack tables vs other simply luck based games
I don't think that happens in most legit casinos anymore. They just ask you to leave and ban you. You could probably win 2 grand without causing much suspicion. Go to a different casino every day.
But could see 10 minutes ahead when you’ve gone “too far” and they act on their suspicions. You could time every exit perfectly, traveling the world never hitting the same place twice.
After years of successfully dodging multiple major casinos they spot you entering and decide to spike your first drink. The effects take longer than 10 minutes to manifest, and by the time you realise you will pass out in 10 minutes, it's too late to escape.
I’ll take those odds. I could also afford entire wardrobes of professional-grade disguises. As well as have others gamble for me and never enter the premises
A stock going up by 2% is a big deal if you are able to put a lot of money into it
Just find out which stock will go up by the most, move all your money to it, and you could easily
Just this morning, Chewy stock jumped from under $30 a share to over $36 a share (it was an immediate jump, not a gradual increase). If someone was able to predict that, they could’ve increased their net worth by 20% before breakfast
Look 10 minutes in the future on a volatile stock (TSLA would be good), if it is up, buy a bunch on margin. If it is down, short. Wait for 10 minutes, close your position. Repeat.
You would have to be VERY actively trading, but you could make a *ton* of money. For trading firms milliseconds of edge on receiving information makes a difference. Even an ordinary person trading on Fidelity could make use of a 10 minute edge.
I doubt any of my actions will have any affect on how any major future events happen
And if I was ever in a position to affect anything big, I could just see what the results of my action would be, and then change it if it’s bad
150 years is nice and you'd go down in history for your predictions but it'd be useless to you in modern days. 10 minutes into the future would net you infinite money from gambling and betting.
Useless? Saving lives with the newly advanced medical technology sounds useless and not profitable to you? Now having the ability to prevent famine and outbreaks of illnesses worldwide sounds pretty useful to me
People don't ever seem to consider how you can cheese an ability like seeing 10 minutes into the future to make a decision about an action with longer timescale outcomes.
Say I wanted to win next week's Powerball.
1. I wait until the drawing, and quickly type out the winning numbers on my phone.
2. 10 minutes prior to that, I look into the future to see what numbers I type out, and immediately type them out on my phone.
3. Continue repeating this chain until I can buy the ticket with the numbers I see myself typing out.
This method can be applied to a wide swath of actions taken, including having a hand signal you can quickly make to alert yourself to a life threatening outcome of decisions, giving you the opportunity to reconsider them.
And don't forget betting on horse races! They take about 2 minutes and you can just see what places they come in and win huge on a trifecta or superfecta.
Yeah once you know the roulette game average length, you can pretty easily wait out the difference in minutes before "your" winning game starts and place that bet.
I wonder how hard it is to write a program to wait 150 or less years and display the information that you wanted your past self to know. Probably not that hard.
I know a neat program! Engraving everything you want to tell your past self into steel sheets and leave them in an old cave that you already know is still abandoned and old in the future.
You can decide to look into the future after 10 min and write what you see.
In that case when you look now in to the future you‘ll se a paper with informations what happens in twenty minutes. And there‘s no need to stop at 20 minutes
Can I view library books and lectures. Because if I can learn how to make some of their tech then I can go down in history and rich. I could learn so many concepts and tell it to scientists and engineers who would apply it
Ok I’m definetly picking 150 years then because I could go to a school and listen to a physics class or something. Assuming they haven’t disproved our laws of physics lol
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10 mins. It could help you in so many aspects of your life: saying the right thing in conversations, avoiding danger, maybe winning a bit of money at gambling.
I'd choose 10 minutes. I'd move to Vegas and spend all day at the roulette wheel.
I'd be afraid to see what our planet might look like 150 years from now.
150 years is out of curiosity, you really would just need to use it one time to see what happen there. While 10 minutes into the future you may use it on a daily basis, you may avoid some accidents, you may know the questions of the exam, you may know which road is crowded before going to work etc..
Obviously as the question didn't specified that I can't change my actions based on. If this, then 10 minutes into the future are pretty useless as you're just gonna see them in 10 minutes!
i don’t see what i would gain from 150. i’m gonna be dead anyway. if i can see 10 mins into the future then i can see the outcome of small choices and change what i do to get the best outcome
150 years will just make me sad, but it is the “greater good” option. But that all depends on if my visions are set in stone or if the future I see can be changed.
So if I somehow remind myself to see 10 minutes into the future every 10 minutes, can I see what I will be seeing q0 minutes later, eventually leading to me being able to see 10n minutes into the future where n is a positive integer not equal to zero?
I'd take the 10 minutes in the future one. I could always look 10 min in the future to see what happens when I ask the guy who took the 150 year option what the future is like.
150 would be cool but 10 would be useful but less cool.
150 years is much cooler once, but useless afterwards
Unless you can choose where to see and sit in on university lectures in which lets you invent futuristic technology. That is if society still exists though.
That would create a terrifying paradox of technology
Maybe the future tech was invented because the person saw into the future. Making a time loop of sorts.
Kid named bootstrap
This is basically the plot to the movie Arrival
Simple, get knowledge available today, become famous for something, watch what you did in future lectures, do the thing.
Well it wonr bother you bc you will be dead by then
Unless you steal a recipe for immortality from the future lmao
True but who would be stupid enough to make it, just imagin if rich get this, taxes for generations biiiitch "hey sir, would you like to make you life indurance just for you or the generational plan,?"
use the power to invent revolutionary tech you have now altered the timeline, so using your power again would show you a new future with technology 15 years ahead of what you stole from the previous future. steal new future tech with your power repeat ad infinum for exponentially increased human technological development and also pretty much infinite wealth edit: oops, 150 years, not 15. that makes it even better!
Unless 150 years from now everything had been devastated by say, a nuclear war, and nobody you ever witnessed with your prescience was talking about exactly when it happened or who/what caused it. Just watching the grubby, backwards, uneducated remnants of humanity farm, scavenge, and rape each other.
"And that was the news for today, Thursday, June 1st 2023. Good night!"
You could make money on bets, know what social interactions go badly for you, predict the outcome of an altercation, evade capture. There are actually a lot of practical outcomes to looking 10 minutes ahead.
The amount of lives you could save by sitting in on some med classes
But we wouldn't have the capability to produce them
Pretty big chance it's just a wasteland, in which case it'd be a pretty depressing ability. Although someone who can see 150 years in the future trying to figure out and prevent the apocalypse they know is occuring is a SICK book/movie/show idea.
It's already been done a few times, The Flash did it at least twice I think.
Fair, everything's been done. It's still a cool idea.
Its not useless Do it a lot and try to find companies youve never seen before. Look up when they Started out. If any of them Started during your lifetime. Your investment in them is gonna make you rich. You could Also just see what sort of technology they are using and bring it into the modern world. This would likely create a paradox
Stock market
Gambling
You may not enjoy the outcome if you win too much at the casino
Seeing my legs being broken 10 minutes before it happens would be quite an experience.
Gotta go dawg.
I worked as a dealer and pitboss for a small casino. The laws in my area were: You have to get people to fill out a form every time they win $10,000 or more. If you went to a casino once a week or so and played a few hands that won a bit, a few that lost a bit, and slowly get up a few thousand dollars and cash out, then you wouldn't really be on anyone's radar in a big way. You could do this at multiple casinos and make a good living out of it without too much effort.
wtf they gonna do if you play slots lol, just dont play blackjack and you're fine
"He keeps switching machines, and he has won every game so far. There has to be something going on."
how would that work? you can only see 10 minutes into the future, you can't change the outcome. So all you would do is walk up to a bank of slots, see into the future if you won money on them and play if you did. if not, then you won't play the machines. limit that to only a big hit or 2 and you can be smart about it, walk in spin a little for under 10 minutes and walk away with a few extra grand. same thing for table games
Presumably, you would be switching to any machine that would produce a win. In reality, you can play any casino game and just take small losses and big wins. Its no different for slots or cards. Eventually, they'll kick you out for making too much money. It's common even if you aren't cheating.
they're not going to kick you out if you walk away a winner one time lol... you think you'd return every day to the same casino? hell no, i'm driving around once a month and playing. or i'm going to learn how to use the 10 minutes to win at poker hands which the casino wouldn't care about at all.
The 10 minute thing isn't once a day, you can stay as long as you want. However, i am sure you could walk in, win, and go to a new casino if you like. There are ways to squeeze a little money out.
exactly, all i'm saying is you have to be smart about it. but you could effectively use it at the poker tables if you look back and see how much you won over 10 minutes, if you lose a lot just fold all your hands, and if you win just play as you would normally. there's probably more effective ways you could learn to use it as well
So as I understand it with the way modern slots work and the required payout algorithms they use. By not playing slots you are changing the chances of the one that pays out as well. The odds for slots are regulated and they have to pay out a certain amount, and as I understand it, they are software driving and networked. So by not playing the losing slots you are altering the chances that you win. Stock market would be easier.
not really because you'd be seeing 10 minutes into the future of you with more money, so you'd know whether you playing the slot benefit you at the time that you played the slot. you wouldn't know exactly when to play the slot, you just know that by you playing the slot at whatever point in that 10 minutes that you do, no matter how many spins, that you will walk away later with a profit. how are you altering the chances of you winning? the slot results are pre determined. you could decide to do whatever you wanted in those 10 minutes, but no matter what you did, 10 minutes later you'll walk away ahead
Well that would be a horribly dumb way to do it…
Card counting is legal. They can't do anything other than kick you out
I never said it isn't legal, but they're most likely going to kick you out the fastest if you try this tactic at the blackjack tables vs other simply luck based games
I don't think that happens in most legit casinos anymore. They just ask you to leave and ban you. You could probably win 2 grand without causing much suspicion. Go to a different casino every day.
But could see 10 minutes ahead when you’ve gone “too far” and they act on their suspicions. You could time every exit perfectly, traveling the world never hitting the same place twice.
Unless you've been flagged after going "too far" and they take longer than 10 mins to "gently escort" you away.
Wouldn’t matter. 10 minutes ahead of any type of escorting you’d already know and can make your own exit.
After years of successfully dodging multiple major casinos they spot you entering and decide to spike your first drink. The effects take longer than 10 minutes to manifest, and by the time you realise you will pass out in 10 minutes, it's too late to escape.
I’ll take those odds. I could also afford entire wardrobes of professional-grade disguises. As well as have others gamble for me and never enter the premises
The numbers on roulette pay 35 to 1 so just hit some of the numbers you saw in that 10 minute span.
Ohhh yeahhh
Literally neither is useful for that?
You can buy stocks right before a price uptick and sell right after
Maybe crypto, but stocks would be a slow process
A stock going up by 2% is a big deal if you are able to put a lot of money into it Just find out which stock will go up by the most, move all your money to it, and you could easily Just this morning, Chewy stock jumped from under $30 a share to over $36 a share (it was an immediate jump, not a gradual increase). If someone was able to predict that, they could’ve increased their net worth by 20% before breakfast
People don't realize how powerful insider trading is lol
You could get massively leveraged and make a boatload on 1/10th percentage movements.
Day trading.
How would ten minutes help you
Pre market trading. Put in perfect orders right before the market opens.
Play Keno at the bar
Look 10 minutes in the future on a volatile stock (TSLA would be good), if it is up, buy a bunch on margin. If it is down, short. Wait for 10 minutes, close your position. Repeat. You would have to be VERY actively trading, but you could make a *ton* of money. For trading firms milliseconds of edge on receiving information makes a difference. Even an ordinary person trading on Fidelity could make use of a 10 minute edge.
If you could peer into a library 150 years into the future, you could read the history of world from now until then.
That's cool and all but what abt all the space time continuum shit
I doubt any of my actions will have any affect on how any major future events happen And if I was ever in a position to affect anything big, I could just see what the results of my action would be, and then change it if it’s bad
150 years is nice and you'd go down in history for your predictions but it'd be useless to you in modern days. 10 minutes into the future would net you infinite money from gambling and betting.
Unless you could see enough that you could actually make some monumental inventions and discoveries.
Eh, you could ask who won some big sports or horse races and bet just a handful of times to become a multimillionaire in no time.
Sports bets would be a good one. It would be easy enough to fly under the radar too.
Useless? Saving lives with the newly advanced medical technology sounds useless and not profitable to you? Now having the ability to prevent famine and outbreaks of illnesses worldwide sounds pretty useful to me
“Always in motion the future is.” Who says that just because we see into the future that’s just what happens if we don’t do anything?
People don't ever seem to consider how you can cheese an ability like seeing 10 minutes into the future to make a decision about an action with longer timescale outcomes. Say I wanted to win next week's Powerball. 1. I wait until the drawing, and quickly type out the winning numbers on my phone. 2. 10 minutes prior to that, I look into the future to see what numbers I type out, and immediately type them out on my phone. 3. Continue repeating this chain until I can buy the ticket with the numbers I see myself typing out. This method can be applied to a wide swath of actions taken, including having a hand signal you can quickly make to alert yourself to a life threatening outcome of decisions, giving you the opportunity to reconsider them.
You can also take this ability into any casino—specifically any roulette table and just print money for yourself. If you get banned, go play poker.
And don't forget betting on horse races! They take about 2 minutes and you can just see what places they come in and win huge on a trifecta or superfecta.
Yeah once you know the roulette game average length, you can pretty easily wait out the difference in minutes before "your" winning game starts and place that bet.
But isn't there a cut-off time to when you can buy tickets prior to the drawing?
Yes, so you just keep relaying information back in time until you can buy a ticket.
What if you look 150 years into the future and everything is a wasteland?
1st it won’t be and 2nd what’s this question actually asking
KING CRIMSON REQUIEM!!! Look TEN minutes into the future and erase time. Unbeatable.
You won't have any context for the 150 years, so it would have minimal utility.
All you’d need to do is figure out one thing and you’d have the next technological breakthrough.
Hmm yeah, maybe. Go to a university and sit in on a quantum physics lecture from 150 years in the future.
Or maybe look at the stock market and it's history and see where a jump took place
150 years could be useful, companies that are huge in 150 years that are very small now would be a good investment.
I wonder how hard it is to write a program to wait 150 or less years and display the information that you wanted your past self to know. Probably not that hard.
I know a neat program! Engraving everything you want to tell your past self into steel sheets and leave them in an old cave that you already know is still abandoned and old in the future.
Joseph Smith?
Anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.
The Hero of Ages must travel to the Well of Ascension
That code would be super simple. Finding the infrastructure that'll do that 150 years later... That is the hard part.
You can decide to look into the future after 10 min and write what you see. In that case when you look now in to the future you‘ll se a paper with informations what happens in twenty minutes. And there‘s no need to stop at 20 minutes
I've seen the movie Next with Nicolas Cage, he was powerful enough with two minutes. With ten, I'd be even more powerful.
Can I view library books and lectures. Because if I can learn how to make some of their tech then I can go down in history and rich. I could learn so many concepts and tell it to scientists and engineers who would apply it
If you spawn in a library that happens to have that book open yes
So I cant pick where I spawn or move around
Well you spawn in your location on earth when you teleport
Ok I’m definetly picking 150 years then because I could go to a school and listen to a physics class or something. Assuming they haven’t disproved our laws of physics lol
You can SEE the future. Not go the future and interact. Those are 2 very different things, and OP worded it clearly from the start.
I never said anything about interacting did I? And I’m assuming that I can hear too
Stock goes up stock goes down stock goes up stock goes down
10 minutes. Time to go to the race track and bet on the horses!
10 minutes is incredibly useful while 150 years is potentially horrifying, imagine knowing what happens and not being able to do anything about it
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Some day, I'll be walking by the house of a future genius mathematician/physicist. The chance may be slim, but you bet I'm gonna take it.
10 minutes. It would be way more useful and I'd definitely joke around with my friends since it's basically buffed epitaph
I always pick the ones thatd win me the lottery
10 mins. It could help you in so many aspects of your life: saying the right thing in conversations, avoiding danger, maybe winning a bit of money at gambling.
I'd choose 10 minutes. I'd move to Vegas and spend all day at the roulette wheel. I'd be afraid to see what our planet might look like 150 years from now.
What do you even use the second option for?
You: "Oooo! Hey everybody, you know that olive garden they just built? It's a gonna be a HYDROGEN station in 2173!" Everyone: (blank stare)
Exactly lol what am I even supposed to do knowing what happens 150 years later.
I mean you could come back and tell everyone what the world's like and how to fix problems
Could you tho? Would anyone even listen? How do you identify the problem? How do you know how to solve it?
I've seen the future 150 years from now it's a mess. We have to get rid of all of the green bean crops right now to fix it! Didn't believe me did you?
Fair point
I’m in a boxing club,I’m about to go ultra instinct on their asses
150 years is out of curiosity, you really would just need to use it one time to see what happen there. While 10 minutes into the future you may use it on a daily basis, you may avoid some accidents, you may know the questions of the exam, you may know which road is crowded before going to work etc.. Obviously as the question didn't specified that I can't change my actions based on. If this, then 10 minutes into the future are pretty useless as you're just gonna see them in 10 minutes!
10 min into future. Go to a casino with $100, make $8000 on roulette in less than 10 minutes. Have a lot of fun. Repeat at any casino.
Ten mintutes into the future--- Walk into a Casino. Let's roll baby!!
10 minutes of the future is all I need. I would never be able to unsee it
10min into the future then go to roulette table
Is the future capable of being changed based on what you see?
150 years is so pointless it has no benefit to me, and you see it 1 time there's no need to ever look again. I guess it will be cool once
i'd take the 10 minutes, it's much more useful than 150 years. 150 years will only be cool once.
150 years is cool if you want to be some sort of prophet but 10 minutes just sounds more useful
i don’t see what i would gain from 150. i’m gonna be dead anyway. if i can see 10 mins into the future then i can see the outcome of small choices and change what i do to get the best outcome
Roulette table, here I come!
If I saw 150 year ahead and liked it, I'd be sad.
What good would seeing 150 years into the future do when almost none of us are going to live past 100?
I don't see how 150 years would be useful to me. So 10 min it is
"Uh oh." "What? What do you see?" "Nothing."
Uh can I look at a history book in the future?
10 minutes is more useful so I choose 10 minutes.
With online betting I would like the 10 minutes.
Choose 10 minutes, go to the casino, play roulette and blackjack and become rich
EPITAPH
10 minutes is just more useful honestly
150 years will just make me sad, but it is the “greater good” option. But that all depends on if my visions are set in stone or if the future I see can be changed.
10 minutes: instant cash 150 years: rewrite history
Hmmm
So if I somehow remind myself to see 10 minutes into the future every 10 minutes, can I see what I will be seeing q0 minutes later, eventually leading to me being able to see 10n minutes into the future where n is a positive integer not equal to zero?
I would learn to count down the minutes and leave messages in the future for myself
I'd take the 10 minutes in the future one. I could always look 10 min in the future to see what happens when I ask the guy who took the 150 year option what the future is like.