r/hypotheticalsituation • u/CryptographerHot6198 • 15h ago
You immediately become immortal.
And the mysterious figure who gives you immortality instructs you that forever every year you remain immortal you will be given $100. And then immediately whatever you choose, you’ll be reverted back in time to when you obtained immortality, no memory of the experience, but all the money is in your bank account. How many years are you gonna do it for, and what would you do with the money afterword?
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u/Cat-Sonantis 15h ago
I'm just gonna carry on going, I'd only revert back and take the money if something truly disastrous happened and there was no escape. Where would I think the money came from though, like imagine if I went for 1000 years and I come back and suddenly have 100k+ in my account.
It would be super interesting if I could come back and bring knowledge with me, because otherwise reverting would be a sort of suicide, I would be ending the person that I had become, things would have to be really bad for me to do that.
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u/Crumbly_Bumbly 15h ago
If you aren’t going to age, well eventually you’d become a global celebrity. Imagine being the only 200 year old alive, and having all of your youth.
Someone 500 years old though? With all the physical prowess of youth? All the time in the world to get college degrees? Lived through every major historical event? Eventually you’d be the most qualifed person out there to be the leader of your nation.
Can’t say I’d wantto go back unless society collapsed.
You’d be able to earn a hell of a lot more than $100 a year either way. Society probably WILL collapse before you’re able to amass much money this way anyway
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u/Young-Grandpa 13h ago
I would stay until life became unbearable, either physically or emotionally. Hard to say how long that would take but I’m betting somewhere between 300 and 3000 years.
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u/ASwarmOfGremlins 13h ago
Depends a lot on the specifics of the immortality. In my prime and healthy? I could go a few centuries at least, as long as there wasn't an apocalypse or something. Maybe longer if the future looks bright. But if it's that Monkey's Paw sort of immortality where you keep getting older and sicker and messed up? Ugh. Maybe a few decades, ducking out while my brain still functions well enough to make to make that decision.
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u/DRose23805 12h ago
I could probably go for quite a long time. The problem would be not getting caught by the authorities of some kind. This will get more and more difficult as time goes along, unless the immortality allowed you to hide in the wilderness and not die from cold and heat, nor take serious damage from it.
Earth will eventually take another Carrington Event level hit and that would out an end to most surveillance issues, probably most of humanity, too. No big deal if I could find a place where I could grow some crops and hunt some game. A decent cave that wasn't likely to fully collapse would probably do. This could be improved with bricks and such and maybe shored up some. If not, there are other ways to build shelters and such.
After all, if I'm not going to remember it, why not stay out for a long time.
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u/Bright_Confusion_311 14h ago
100 bucks? Oh come on make it at least half a million.
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u/greywoode 13h ago
Per year, go 500000 year and reset with no knowledge of it happening congrats you get to lose sleep wonder wtf you have 50 million in your bank account
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u/LittlestWarrior 12h ago
I feel like after a certain point of immortal living, you would have no desire to cash in.
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u/runswithlightsaber 12h ago
Has anyone watched The Good Place?? That forever thing gets brought up and has to be dealt with. Interesting idea, immortality. For all the benefits, that one massive con is a tough one to swallow. Life would eventually lose any meaning I would think
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u/Top-Committee-954 10h ago
If I have to choose the number of years first, and then I'm forced to do that number of years, I'm not choosing very many.
If I don't have to choose the number of years first, since I'm losing all my memories anyway, it doesn't matter. I just keep going until I want to stop. The 100 bucks/year isn't a consideration at all. If I am having fun living as an immortal, I keep going. If it's not fun, and I don't see it getting better, I go back.
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u/KaraKalinowski 8h ago
The post isn't really clear whether you choose a number up front or choose when to end it. If the latter, I might choose to never end it. We'll see how I feel after the earth dies.
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u/Ixora_orig 5h ago
I will try to figure out immortality or at least partial immortality, give it to 3 other people and pose in style buried in rock while waiting for someone to dig us out.
After I got out? I don't know, maybe I should drink the blood of the first group of people I see if they flash some strong light in my face, feel kinda rude to do that to people.
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u/foxhill_matt 15h ago
Zero years. Immortality would be horrific.
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u/archibaldplum 15h ago
True immortality, watching humanity going extinct and the sun burning out, sure, that'd be hellish. The first few thousand years, though, seeing how society develops, and then painlessly resetting when it gets to be too much, that I think I'd probably quite enjoy. Plus, I'd probably be over my early retirement threshold when I got back, so returning to a noticeably better life than the one I left.
Of course, there is the potential horror if you wake up the next day and discover you've only actually gotten $300 for the experience, and you then spent the next couple of years wondering what kind of horror is coming in 2028.
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u/greywoode 13h ago
You missed the part where he added you'd have no memory of your time being immortal so rather than wondering what happened in 2028 you'd be losing sleep wondering wtf the money came from
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u/archibaldplum 12h ago
Ah, I read that as forgetting everything which happened when you were immortal, but remembering the deal and having agreed to it.
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u/thatshygirl06 13h ago
You literally get to choose when to stop.
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u/foxhill_matt 6h ago
You're driving down a road, a truck hits you from the front, another hits you from behind, you're compressed into an inch thick slab of mush in an instant. You don't die. The pain is all you experience. You can't die. Your brain is damaged so much that you can only think of pain. You can't die. Ever. Pain is all you know. Forever.
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u/Corey307 12h ago
The question is are we immortal and invulnerable or just immortal? Vampires are mortal fiction but they can be killed. Like you could be immortal assuming you don’t get run over by a semi truck.
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u/justanotherguyhere16 15h ago
Imagine going slowly insane after the universe dies out and everything is frozen and dark
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u/PinboardWizard 13h ago
At that point you might want to look into using the "be reverted back in time" option
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u/greywoode 13h ago
Ahh but you can end the immortallity and return to when you were given it at that point with no memory of it having happened, you'd just have the horror of wondering wtf all the money in your bank account came from say it took a billion years to get there well congrats you get to pull your hair out wondering wtf you have 100 billion in your bank account
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u/justanotherguyhere16 13h ago
I wonder if immortal means no pain.
It’s 5 billion years or so until our sun starts to die.
Then it supernovas.
If we haven’t colonized other planets that’s going to be a very painful experience for a few trillion years
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u/Afraid_Personality_3 9m ago
It's an interesting scenario but I have a few questions.
- How much realism are we talking about here? (excluding the whole immortality part). Like, can we assume that people won't notice you are immortal or will someone be able to notice after seeing you not age for like 30 years?
- Sort of a follow up to the previous point: Is it immortality with eternal youth or you just can't die but will continue to grow old?
If people can notice I don't thing I would be able to go over 200 years even with very careful planning, unless I live completely off the grid.
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u/CURSE_YOU_BAYLEEEE 15h ago
Could I set up a way for me to be encased in the arctic ice and just lie dormant until all the ice in the world has melted? Then I’ll choose to go back after having had a long nap.