Universal language module. Not to translate all into English but to understand all of them.
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2024
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Just put this fish in your ear.
You're now a protocol droid.
Ok I think - except that I am absolute shit at protocol so now I'm gonna get someone killed.
Ability to complete a household project with only 1 trip to the hardware store.
Impossible... that would break some fundamental law of physics or something
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Polyglotism. Being able to speak every language would be practically a superpower.
This is a neat idea until you're in a situation where you remember 38 different words for a thing, just not the one in the language you need
I only speak one language fluently and one language extremely poorly.
The number of times I’ve been able to come up with the word I want in my second language and completely blanked on it in my native language baffles my mind.
This is why I learned the shit out of English: If I forget a word, there's like 6 more words that are close enough to the one I forgot.
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If I could 'cheat' and say 'I know every language in the world', and that included programming languages and things like scientific notation as a language, I'd take that in a heartbeat. If not, I'd take programming, as at least then I can create things and make money.
If speaking every language included dead and forgotten languages too though, then it would be a very tough choice.
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I want the entirety of mathematics indellably etched into my mental model. I want to see the math behind everything in reality the way Neo saw the matrix code in the walls of the grubby apartment buildings.
What if that just drives you insane due to the problem described by Gödel's incompleteness theorem? Maybe you'd become susceptible to someone telling you "this statement is false".
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I'll do the same for physics. Together we shall reign.
11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
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I'd upload a few languages. Instantly being able to speak and read an array of languages and traveling the world would be fun.
This is a good one. I interact with a lot of East and South Asians in my spare time, and I would love to speak all of their languages. Especially since their English is not the best (in my circle, that is).
Math, so so much math...
"I know how to make myself do the thing I planned to do."
The ability to upload any ability into my mind that I can think of and be amazing at it.
Shashahshaaa!
Runs away and throws pocket sand
Found the guy that wishes for more wishes
How to people.
I have great ideas and am horrible at explaining them.
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Whatever is fun and makes money. Tired of being bored and broke all the time.
One way is making raytracing shaders for older games. I recall one korean dude whose patreon was raking in ~50k dollars a month, several of his releases/posts were about adding raytracing to Fallout 4
Thanks! Sounds like a significant learning curve.
Not that I'm opposed. Currently reskilling myself from bored accountant to hopefully some sort of IT wizard. Just learning everything I can get my hands on and doing projects like building / maintaining a home server, building a PC, switched to Linux last year, and coding some small projects in Python.
I just feel like I'm learning such basic things and won't be able to actually make money with any of this for years. It's frustrating lol
25 years in IT here: you're on the right track. Tablet generation has really caused a brain drain.
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Read and write all languages. Be it swahili, mandarin, latin, hieroglyfs, python, c++ or java. ;)
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If I could have something magical: I'd like to be able to accelerate my thinking so I can have as long as I want to think things through
If it's gotta be real: easier to use memory, I feel like I have no idea what's going on bc I forget shit, but it's not forgotten I just didn't remember that memory at the right time even though I had it..
Talking to people hasn't been going well lately
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I'd love to know how to dance, I mean really properly dance for every situation, not just a generic two foot shuffle. I've seen some people who can dance properly and they looked cool as fuck.
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Speaking Korean, I live here for 4 years already and despite pushing moderatelly to learn it, I don't speak it at all. Everything I learn I forget very fast again.
I would immediately download more RAM. No hax. Really works.
Musical ability — perfect pitch, great rhythm. I'm an okay musician after years working at it, but I'd love to be better.
Playing the piano and other instruments like a master. Music conveys feelings we can’t convey otherwise.
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I want to understand, intrinsically, and be able to manipulate to my liking, all the financial systems of the world.
At worst, I'd quickly become a well-paid accountant. At best, I'd become an extremely talented, untraceable, modern Robin Hood.
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Ability to fold a fitted sheet.
I know it's a thought experiment but try to be a little realistic.
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the ability to think calmly and rationally
Psychotherapy
"he's been going all night, he's a machine!"
"....I know healthy emotion regulation"
"...show me"
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