Like Neo in The Matrix and "I know kung fu", what one ability would you choose to upload directly to your mind?

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

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.

I'd make tens of dollars as the scholar to decode the Harrapan/Indus Valley script!

Or I make makes millions as a YouTuber decoding the Voynich manuscript...

Our society is broken:(

If it was just one language and writing system as a choice, I might say Japanese.

There are so many different characters in their writing as symbols instead of phonetic sounds, that bookstores in Japan are divided into sections, in which one has books that use... say 500 characters, then another section with books that use 1200 characters, or 5000, or 10,000, or more!
To read Japanese or Chinese with a mastery of over 10,000 symbols might be my choice. The richness and depth of those writings must be something incredible.

My second choice, for shits 'n' giggles, might be something like Sumerian or Akkadian, in the original Cuneiform!

I can't even imagine how powerful I would be if I could be ignored in every language.

The rpg munchkin in me hopes polyglot misleading includes computer languages.

This sounds very useful until you realize you still don't want to talk to people in any language.

Yea, the best option.

This is a back up power to me. The best power is the power to control time however you like.

You could learn every language ever created with the ability to control time. As you would also live as long as you wanted.

You also would be able to timelock any object making it unmoving and indestructable.

You can heal anyone from anything by rolling them back to when they werent injured

No end to what you can do with controlling time

I thought the issue there was the processor not being able to run a single core long enough.

Or maybe it's just how the operating system works?

Have you tried Linux? I use Arch btw.

You will just be more (less?) Efficient and being efficient.

Found the guy that wishes for more wishes

Rizz download complete

I wanted to say how to happy, but I think how to people would fix that as well.

Our ideas are always good to us, but they're highly informed based on our own experiences and needs.

I had a neighbor who asked me to help them create some form of device that sits on the dashboard of their car and catalog billboards. Apparently, a hole in their life was passing by a billboard with kids in the car and forgetting what exit the food/restaurant was on.

This was in an era where cell phones and online maps/search existed.

I had another acquaintance (decades ago) who wanted me to work on a photography simulator in which you had to manipulate people in 3D to compose a picture. I tried to explain the high level of difficulty and the cost per unit being so high that no one would be willing to pay for it. They pushed me until I did some napkin match on arists/developer/marketing costs then they got all pissed off at me because it came in conservatively north of 300k.

Just put this fish in your ear.

You're now a protocol droid.

Impossible... that would break some fundamental law of physics or something

When I was driving instacart between jobs or what not I had one for just that. Pick up 4 items from Lowes. Called them and she said they just left there and weren't going back, haha

You had me until Java.

Is Maths a language?

I'll do the same for physics. Together we shall reign.

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".

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.

And when you discover that free will is an illusion because of deterministic patterns, what will you do then?

But also the ability to turn it off at will. Otherwise life will become incredibly tedious.

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).

You can dance if you want to!

Sounds like you need to download pretty much everything ever written on mathematics, physics, biology, and medicine. That info dump would also have to include a bunch of stuff that hasn’t even been invented yet, and probably won’t be within the next 500 years.

Once you have all that in your mind, you’ll be incredibly frustrated that modern day technology is at least 500 years away from what you actually need. You would need to build a bunch of quantum electronics fabrication factories so that you can build the real factories that actually produce the machines you need for assembling the very first brain reading and recording machine.

Although, since you have all that revolutionary science and tech in your head, you should use that to fix global warming, world hunger, cancer and a bunch of other stuff so that you can raise the trillions of capital needed for building the main project.

"he's been going all night, he's a machine!"

"....I know healthy emotion regulation"

"...show me"

That can be said about any form of communication. Words on a page convey what words spoken can't always.

The right touch in the right way Can connect you more than any sound or word could ever hope to.

A painting can make me feel things a book can't make me understand. A performance or dance can show me something i can't hear or speak

It's different ways of experiencing experiences. What is communicated is not always the same between different subjects and objects. Even if they often do

But also to your point hearing music IS different from feeling music and different from creating it. I think music as a communication tool is fuzzy and not very good at communicating clearly. Powerfully i dont deny but not everyone can be affected the same way by the same music either so it's not a dependable form of communication.

And sometimes yes those feelings can be conveyed by other means.

But you seem like you might enjoy this song

Ren - Hi Ren (the music video is worth watching if you listen to this one)

Poke your hand until you hit the corner of a seam. Do the same with the other hand on an adjacent corner.

Bring hands together so both corners touch.

Now unfold the corner in one hand onto the other hand.

Smooth it out. Repeat with the untouched corners.

You can do it one more time or just fold from there

I know it's a thought experiment but try to be a little realistic.

Ok, that would also be a great mundane wish for me!

Following your lead: mystical/magical healing abilities, for self and others. Mundane, photographic memory.

I've thought about that a lot. If I won a near bn or more lottery, could I stay grounded enough, after hiring a reputable financial planner, to found a Montessori school of high global academic standards or free health clinic, including pharmacy, that includes plant medicines, organic foods diets, where appropriate, and/or a smaller side project or two? Or would I be irresponsible and do an Elvis-type thing for my primary caregiver and for my child that's still in my life, rather than set them up with a trust, so they would be able to be truly financially independent, should their spouse pass before them? It's easy to think the best of ourselves until the moment of truth arrives. I'd hope I'd be financially responsible, hire the planner, give to my community in a meaningful, probably anonymous way (because of sudden best friends clamoring for Fendi bags and Lambos), and buy myself an old Volvo or Audi, dependable and unostentatious.

This would be a pretty dope tv show for about a season.

There's a sewing store that is selling everything off in a retirement sale near me. I'm going to check it out as I've never been in the store before. Anything you think i should look for?

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

I too wouldn't mind uploading poll dancing abilities. I feel like that would help lose weight and get great core strength so quickly.

The crazy thing is that you can literally just do this by studying engineering for a few years. It's not that hard, it just takes some work.

Monkey's paw curls: You understand the literal meaning of all the words, but not the context.

Willsch fei ebbes von dä Buabespitzle?

What line would you use for this instead of "i know kung fu"

You'd need both time travel and teleportation, or else you'll find yourself in space when you travel forward or back in time. The Earth isn't a stationary object

The upgrade is get a good therapist, and that can be trickier, more or less depending on your place of residence. Someone who can help you gather new tools and the skills to apply them. I wish you the best.

or even I have to do something I’d rather not

What works for me for this: A soundtrack. Back in the day, I used to bike every weekend. I hated exercise but realized I had to do it. I started collecting fast, powerful tracks, found what made me focus rather than go into daydreaming. I slowly over the weeks, months and years, kept at the same soundtrack. Now, when there's busy work, or shit work, or pain i need to endure, i throw an earbud in and i'm back on the long ass boring trail, just focusing on whatever bullshit i need to do.

Doesn't work well if I need to do something creative, but cleaning and grass cutting, it's like a switch to turn off my "god i ate this" switch.

This is an issue CBT (not that one) can help with.

It is but its a 20 sided dice roll after that. And you critically fail....

Ha! I'm imagining a DC comic book about "appraisal man"!!

If the disparity in strength and size is significant it can absolutely save you.

There is not a 10 year old that had ever existed that would win against Magnus Midtbø if for some reason they were fighting.

I would prove you wrong if i could pay for it

Seconding Piano. I'm a reasonably decent guitarist, but there aren't many everyday situations where this comes in handy unless you're a professional musicians.

However, Pianos are casually placed everywhere, intended for public use. Especially in airports for some reason. I would love to woo random people passing by by flawlessly playing Hiromi Uehara or Jordan Rudess.

If you managed French Spanish is a fucking breeze. You know most of the nouns already and the pronouns are incredibly straightforward.

Yeah, Billy 780164 as I like to call him, is an ant living in the basement in a swedish suburb near the sea, just besides the grass Gras9534795.