Universal language module. Not to translate all into English but to understand all of them.
Either having a complete understanding of modern-day physics or knowing how to play the violin.
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.
I’ll do the same for physics. Together we shall reign.
But also the ability to turn it off at will. Otherwise life will become incredibly tedious.
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
This skill can be learned once you defeat the final boss of Home Projects https://youtu.be/vu2j62M-ndc?si=MhMNYjzao206eOj_
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).
Guitar sounds fun
NZT-48 + CPH4 = 🧠
Is this some kind of chemistry reference? What’s going on here? 🙂
Not sure about the latter, but NZT was the focal “smart” drug in Limitless (a show on the premise “this drug makes u smart but if u stop taking it bad stuff happens”)
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.
Time travel
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
Time (and relative dimension in space) travel
This assumes an absolute reference frame, which does not exist in this universe.
Time travel already is teleportation.
Actually, teleportation would be more powerful than time travel, since you can travel through different times as well with teleportation as an ability, but you can only teleport to a different time with time travel.
Nothing is or everything is. There is no absolute motion.
Yes there is, you just can’t measure it.
it’s all relative. definitively relative.
that said, if you go to the matrix and ask for the power, it’s not liable to give you half-assed solutions that don’t take the details into account. Therefore it would already take into account the relative displacement and correct accordingly.
Download more RAM. My working memory is shit (ADHD).
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.
If I had to liken ADHD to computer terms, I think I would blame a faulty task scheduler. That’s what issues the threads to the CPU. When Ryzen came out and also when Intel moved to Performance and Efficiency cores there were issues with efficient task scheduling.
You will just be more (less?) Efficient and being efficient.
I might be a little obsessed with efficiency. Possibly due to my issues making me inefficient by nature, I tend to seek efficiency wherever I can, like some mirage in the desert of my mind.
Did I write this comment? I used to think I just did my best to deliberately waste as little time as possible to balance out all the time I waste involuntarily. Now I realize that I just can’t tolerate being idle, so the moment I initiate some automated process that will take more than a few seconds to complete, I start yet another task while waiting. This looks a hell of a lot more efficient on paper than it does in reality, though…
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
Following your lead: mystical/magical healing abilities, for self and others. Mundane, photographic memory.
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.
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.
Yea, the best option.
This sounds very useful until you realize you still don’t want to talk to people in any language.
Read and write all languages. Be it swahili, mandarin, latin, hieroglyfs, python, c++ or java. ;)
You had me until Java.
JavaIsEasyToReadAsLongAsYouDontEverNeedToTakeABreakToBreathFactoryFactory
The ability to make an ability uploading tool.
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.
I suspect it’ll be the other way around.
Our brains must be augmented with tech first, then uploads are trivial.
Start with a calculator, learn how to manipulate it and read it like proprioception. At some point we have an LLM on a chip in our head and updates to that update our consiousness.
That sort of tech would open some really interesting doors. If the human mind is augmented in one way or another, it becomes difficult to tell where the human part ends and machine begins.
Once you take that to its logical conclusion, you being to ask questions like, what’s the difference between a human mind and a machine mind. Is there a meaningful difference?
You could augment a human mind with machine parts, live your normal life and continue to augment more and more as your organic cells gradually die over the course of several decades. Once the last organic bits die of old age, there’s nothing but machine left and your transition to a digital life form is complete.
How to people.
I have great ideas and am horrible at explaining them.
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.
Rizz download complete
I wanted to say how to happy, but I think how to people would fix that as well.
