Is the answer really 42?
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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Did my childhood dog really go live on a farm in the country?
When I was younger, we lived on a little farm outside town. Some people from town couldn't take care of their golden any longer, so the dog came to live with us.
About a year later, they asked if they could bring their kid by to visit, because he found out that "went to live on a farm" was usually a lie.
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"What's next?"
Will revolution and communism win or will humanity hit the wall with the great filter and wipe ourselves out?
How does priority work in MtG?
In actuality though I'd probably kick up a reincarnation loop by asking for the full experience of every living and inanimate thing the universe has to hold, starting with everyone/everything I ever interacted with and branching exponentially from there.
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What's really the meaning of life - like are we really just a cosmic roll of the dice going through an at most ambivalent universe?
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What do I need to do from now, until the day I die, to be the happiest possible?
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This kinda just feels like "what single question would you ask ChatGPT if it was omniscient" so my mind is just getting lost in the arcane and complex structuring and restructuring of the question to get the answer you want rather than one that literally answers the exact question you asked.
Assuming though that you actually do just get the answer to the intent and spirit of your question the only rational one I can think of would have to be some variation of:
"What answer could you give me that would offer me the most peace, contentment and sense of resolution to my life?"
Otherwise I'd spend an eternity (or however long I'd have to consider my question) pondering how to ask that question without getting an accurate and correct response like:
"A really good one."
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If Miura didn't die, how would have Berserk ended?
Edit: NM, looks like I'll find out one day.
Tell me all the digits in Pi or some other irrational number so that I can get pseudo eternal life.
Since we have a wish-granting entity then that means the supernatural is somewhat real and I use my newfound time as well as the frozen world to learn everything I wanted and possible ascend beyond humanity.
Assuming you aren't just forced to stay and listen to the numbers of Pi for the rest of infinity.
You're dead, you wouldn't just be allowed to walk around.
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What caused the bronze age collapse and are we socially overdue for a similar one?
What is the formula of everything that perfectly fits the description of our universe or multiverse?
What's the total weight in poop I produced over the course of my life.
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