I’d tell my past self that I have ADHD, and to ask my mom to take me to a psychiatrist.
I’ve been putting off my ADHD test for over 15 years. I keep saying I’ll do it. I’ll do it some day soon!
At least I went to the dentist… after 14 or so years of not going.
I would tell myself to spend more time with and keep in touch with a close friend who succumbed to his sadness.
Ask my future self. Telling my past self something is very likely to have no affect on my life (what if past actions only affect that “me” and not me-me), whereas asking my future self something will always end up with me gaining information - no guarantee its relevant, but it’s more likely to be.
Past self wouldn’t listen so any sage wisdom I could pass on anyway lol
What would you ask your future self?
“Tell me the most important thing you can tell me”
My future self will know best about what I need to know. Winning lottery/investments can make me rich now, but maybe there’s a nuclear war, climate apocalypse, or some other disaster in 5 years and my future self can tell me where to be and what to do before it starts.
Who wins the super bowl for the next 10 years or some other betting-friendly thing I can ask to change my financial situation.
You can ask your future self stuff right now. You won’t get the answer until you answer it in the future, but the question is possible.
But, you never answer it in the future
Yes you can, just that the past you can’t hear it.
All answers are from the future, just like all photographs are of the past
But all answers occur in the present.
I posted 19 minutes ago. Your answer came 1 minute ago. Your answer came from the future from the point in time of the question.
This might seem stupid, but it’s the same point that Stephen Hawking used to prove that time travelling is impossible or something.
I would ask my future self “what is the most stressful thing awaiting me on my future, which I shouldn’t worry about at all”.
This doesn’t change anything except my mental health is better off.
Everyone here is trying to make a quick buck, without thinking about whether it will work.
If they change the past, they will cease to exist, unless time is looped, which means nothing would have changed.
So the past is a dead end, and the future you should know this too, answering you will either make them vanish from existence, or answering you will not change anything.
If they vanish, there’s no guarantee you’ll be better off, even if you do become rich.
If they change the past, they will cease to exist
Good point, I’m definitely changing the past then.
This seems like a completely pointless comment. If moneymaking efforts won’t work because of the paradox of changing the future, then nothing else will work, since anything will change the future. In that situation, if given the opportunity, why not try?
Also, this can be resolved if your relative future self is smart enough to remember what they heard in the past, and say the same thing they heard when the time comes (unless it doesn’t work, in which case arguably they’d say something else, which leads to an unstable configuration where the theoretical future will change until you reach a stable configuration where future you does repeat what you heard)
ACKTHUALLY
My other post gave an answer which made sense.
I would want to know what moment in the future causes me the most stress, which I don’t need to worry about at all.
No paradoxes, just convenience.
Also, I wasn’t saying money making wouldn’t work, only that your future you would cease to exist because you would have changed things.
If you’re okay with suicide to offer your past self financial advice, then the same should be true of your future self.
Personally, erasing that timeline seems unacceptable.
Well, it’s not me who will stop existing, that’s 5 seconds from now me’s problem. But like, she already doesn’t exist. So really all I’m doing is changing which 5 seconds from now me has to deal with the burden of existence.
Tell my last self… Bitcoin. Lol
Past. I’d do a lot of things differently including being single forever.
Tell my past selt not to trust guidance counselors and go to the tech highschool instead. If they say anything is a kind, caring voice along the lines of “we think you would be better in an easier class…”, shut them down. Don’t settle, don’t negotiate, don’t think you can wait it out.
Realistically I’m sure I’d end up using it for financial gain either way.
Future Self: What’s the next Nvidia stock?
Past self has more monkey paw possibilities, but I think I’d go with something like, “Buy all the surplus compute you can to generate bitcoin in 2009 and hold it until $64,000.”
That’s too much work. Just buy all the bitcoin you can in 2010 and sell it all at 50k, which means you can cash it in 2 years earlier and still make WAY more than you’ll ever be able to spend.
Dogecoin would be funnier. Buy 1K USD when it’s like 0.000001 and sell when it’s at .20USD
They’re the same thing tho
I would want to tell my past self that I’m trans and they should take HRT ASAP and that all my friends and family are accepting and that I don’t need to wait until I’m 30 to come out.
Ugh, SAME
I have too much to warn my past self about to not choose that.
Yeah Russia declaring war on me would be a footnote.
Yes your mom is mentally I’ll.
MURPH!!! DON’T LET ME LEAVE MURPH!!! MUUUUUURRRRRPHHHHH!!! DON’T LET ME LEAVE!
