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.
Polyglotism. Being able to speak every language would be practically a superpower.
If I could ‘cheat’ and say ‘I know every language in the world’, and that included programming languages and things like scientific notation as a language, I’d take that in a heartbeat. If not, I’d take programming, as at least then I can create things and make money.
If speaking every language included dead and forgotten languages too though, then it would be a very tough choice.
This is probably super pedantic (bloody programmers right?) but I really feel like it would depend on what is meant by “know every programming language”. Like being able to remember every syntax and construct is sort of useful but not all that practical. Understanding how to implement the language in a useful way is the valuable part, not just knowing the keywords.
I guess I would kind of compare it to the difference between being able to read Shakespeare and being able to write Shakespeare,
If we’re being pedantic, in The Matrix, Neo says ‘I know kung fu’ to explain that he both knows what all the moves are, and how to use them. As that was the topic of the post, I used the same sentence structure to mean the same thing about all languages, including programming 😉
Since we are being pedantic, I think maybe you mean “apply” not implement?
Correct. Learning a programming language is trivial. Far easier than a foreign language.
If we think of it in terms of learning a language, what matters is the grammar and ability to use it to struct prose to create a coherent story.
There’s also a lot of reuse which requires knowing what’s available. The closest analogy there is how music sampling is used.
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:(
This sounds very useful until you realize you still don’t want to talk to people in any language.
This is a back up power to me. The best power is the power to control time however you like.
You could learn every language ever created with the ability to control time. As you would also live as long as you wanted.
You also would be able to timelock any object making it unmoving and indestructable.
You can heal anyone from anything by rolling them back to when they werent injured
No end to what you can do with controlling time
You also would be able to timelock any object making it unmoving and indestructable.
Technically, if you stop something in time and space, it would disappear before your very eyes if it was on Earth, as the Earth would keep on going on its orbit around the sun, around the Milky Way Galaxy, etc. and your object would be floating somewhere. Against what reference point would you lock it?
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!
Yea, the best option.
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.
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.
This is why Spanglish is a thing.
Deduction, at superhuman speed of course just like neos kung fu speed.
Deduce the optimal stock market traction to gain a big chunk of capital so I can than deduce the best proper services to provide, or find the proper projects“I know how to understand and speak every language with the proper accent. Wöáh.”
Monkey’s paw curls: You understand the literal meaning of all the words, but not the context.
Willsch fei ebbes von dä Buabespitzle?
Skateboarding. Looks so fun
“I know how to make myself do the thing I planned to do.”
Psychotherapy
“he’s been going all night, he’s a machine!”
“…I know healthy emotion regulation”
“…show me”
"Stop trying to forgive your father and forgive your father!"
Knowing every tree, plant, insect, …
Yeah, Billy 780164 as I like to call him, is an ant living un the basement in a swedish suburb near the sea, just besides the grass Gras9534795.
:) not what I intended, but that would be cool too
The ability not to forget all things when I grow older.
I know how to sew anything. I love to binge sewing vids so being able to take some scraps and make cool shit would be amazing.
There’s a sewing store that is selling everything off in a retirement sale near me. I’m going to check it out as I’ve never been in the store before. Anything you think i should look for?
Sewing notions like button sets, zippers, interfacing, binding tape etc. All that stuff is nice to have on hand regardless of the project. Other than that I think I’d be looking for patterns rather than cloth unless you have a specific project in mind.
Idle curiosity. Sad to see a shop like that close even if i dont havr much use for it myself
Psychology.
I assume psychology is very useful for social interaction, but complicated and mid-impact enough that I personally wouldn’t bother to analog-learn it.
Kung Fu
I’d love to know how to dance, I mean really properly dance for every situation, not just a generic two foot shuffle. I’ve seen some people who can dance properly and they looked cool as fuck.
You can dance if you want to!
I do, and I love it! But I also need to face the fact that I’m not very good at it 😁
we can leave your friends behind!
'Cuz your friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance
Then they’re no friends of mine
“I know how to make piles of money while sitting on my ass” (without being a psychopathic CEO, a crypto bro or a “fintech” con artist, for the sake of not hating myself)
Then I can use my money to buy the services of anybody who has the other abilities I need while still sitting on my ass, and feel good providing employment at the same time.
The problem is luck plays an enormous role in whether or not a company fails or makes bank. This is how we end up with idiots who become hundred-millionaires or billionaires. Though being savvy helps improve your chances.
If you’re good at playing the dailies, you will inevitably go bust, possibly while owning a bunch of rotting commodities that didn’t sell in time, but once you have a reputation friends will lend you money to get back on your feet (which you pay back with interest.)
“Contract management”, I think it’s called.
You hire the services of one factory or laboratory to do your manufacture and packaging, another company for distribution and marketing, another for accounting, etc. You can build a good-sized company with one employee: You, the owner.Yeah usually the two requirements there are a decent business sense and a boatload of starting capital
Sex probably
