There is a hypothetical set of actions that, if I had taken them last year, would have made me a million dollars. So I just lost a million dollars.
If I took the knowledge in a current human biology textbook and rearranged it in just the right way, I’d come up with the secret to immorality. So I have a chance at immortality but will fail at it.
I could go up to any person and, in theory, have just the right conversation with them to get them to do pretty much anything I wanted. But I don’t know that conversation to have. I have lost control of the world, of which I could have been master.
I love playing lil hypothetical games like that.
There is a hypothetical set of actions that, if I had taken them last year, would have made me a million dollars. So I just lost a million dollars.
If I took the knowledge in a current human biology textbook and rearranged it in just the right way, I’d come up with the secret to immorality. So I have a chance at immortality but will fail at it.
I could go up to any person and, in theory, have just the right conversation with them to get them to do pretty much anything I wanted. But I don’t know that conversation to have. I have lost control of the world, of which I could have been master.
Omg I get triggered by these hypotheticals.
There’s a hypothetical timeline where, say, if a time traveler went back to my childhood, they could brainwash me with the alt-right pipeline.
Like… okay that’s maybe enough hypotheticals… Very uncanny to think about.