re: Hypothetical red pill/blue pill discussion

All you red pillers are okay with losing your kids??

imagine how frustrating it would be to remember internet porn but not be able to use it bc now it’s 1986

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At 48 with a good marriage, kids, and a grandchild, plus in a good place financially, blue pill all day.

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100% this.

Yes, red pill guarantees you end up one of the richest people on the planet but there’s zero chance you’ll repeat all the critical steps to lead to what’s good in your life today.

With the red pill, you’re giving up something. Could be good, could be bad and you really won’t know what until you get back to the current age.

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Why do I have to lose my kids? I would knowe where and when to go get my wife. If she took me poor, she'd take me fabulously rich.

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Maybe you’re right but I think this is an oversimplification. Yeah, you know who/where, but do you really know and understand how/why?

I met my wife through a mutual friend in HS (she and I went to different schools, I went to school with a guy from her neighborhood). Long story short, he gave her my number, she called, we became friends, then a couple and here we are 23 years of marriage later.

Now, me and the friend drifted apart a few months later, mostly due to a lack of interests. But if I’m being honest, we were drifting way before that. Maybe me being a slightly different person (like a kid who literally knows the future) could have accelerated that and he never introduces us?

And even if I approach her on my own like you suggest, our origin story is completely different. She somewhat trusted me because of the mutual friend…without him introducing us, does our relationship develop the same? Does it develop into something that turns into a 23 year long marriage? Do I come off as some creepy weirdo try-hard who knows everything and is determined to be her boyfriend?

This is the problem. Relationships are complex stories. Change a couple things here and there and the ending could be radically different. Maybe a gazillion dollars is worth the risk, but I don’t believe I have any problems that can be solved by a gazillion dollars and couldn’t be solved with $10MM, especially considering the risk.

Interesting to think about but blue pill all day for me. No question.

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Why do I have to lose my kids? I would knowe where and when to go get my wife. If she took me poor, she'd take me fabulously rich

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That’s the fallacy of the choice. You think that’s what would happen but it isn’t.

I imagine any relatively young person would take blue. You could retire tomorrow on 10 million

Getting to be 6 again and knowingly what I know now is easily better than $10 mil.

With Apple stock and things other mentioned, and by far the thing that can easily make you the richest would be bitcoin.


Work your arse off, save every penny, then when I'm about 30 years old D, dump my life savings into bitcoin, then live nicely off of that, then sell it all when bitcoin hits 60k and I have probably tens of billions.

Actually after a quick Google search, you may be get a trillion dollars or at least the richest dude in the world.

If you pour all your resources into getting into bitcoin the moment it was tradeable, it started at one-tenth of one cent. So I could gave gotten 100 bitcoin for $1 lol. Not sure just how easy it was to build up a stash but for $50k you could amass 5 million bitcoin.

Red pill.

I have more regrets than I care to admit. I would really prefer to be about 15-16, though, instead of six.

My family moved to a different town the summer before my freshman year. Start me on the day we moved. That would work.

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Blue. I aint doing all this shite again.

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This. I'm 39 and already wish I were dead. I'm not doing all this shite again. Just give me the $10m and let me be.

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That’s the fallacy of the choice. You think that’s what would happen but it isn’t.

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While time travel can be debated, and the butterfly effect and all that, but what can’t be debated is biology.

You could meet the same woman all over again and get married, but your children would definitely be different. There is no way to recreate the exact time, sperm/egg fertilization etc.

Sure you might have the same amount of kids with the same woman, but they won’t be the same kids.