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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Universal language module. Not to translate all into English but to understand all of them.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're now a protocol droid.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Ok I think - except that I am absolute shit at protocol so now I'm gonna get someone killed.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just put this fish in your ear.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

Take your pick:

1980s BBC (Jump to 2:05 if the timestamp doesn’t work).

2005 Movie

Math, so so much math...

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ability to complete a household project with only 1 trip to the hardware store.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Impossible... that would break some fundamental law of physics or something

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I want the entirety of mathematics indellably etched into my mental model. I want to see the math behind everything in reality the way Neo saw the matrix code in the walls of the grubby apartment buildings.

[–] Cratermaker@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if that just drives you insane due to the problem described by Gödel's incompleteness theorem? Maybe you'd become susceptible to someone telling you "this statement is false".

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ideally, I wouldn't have to see the proofs for everything, just recognize the observable math.

The problem with the "This statement is false" could simply be coupled by something akin to imaginary numbers. Paradoxes can be described mathematically without being solvable.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh, brother, no. Godel's incompleteness theorem is a problem much bigger than imaginary numbers. Imaginary numbers are just something we initially didn't account for but we can (and did) fix. Godel's theorem means everything may just be broken and we just don't know.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And when you discover that free will is an illusion because of deterministic patterns, what will you do then?

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Whatever it is physics demands they do, obviously.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly finding out the lack of free will exists would be the most liberating thing ever. I could just let autopilot take its course.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I'll do the same for physics. Together we shall reign.

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[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Probably the ability to not be an unbalanced idiot 24/7. I literally fell up the stairs twice this week. There are few people who are less scatter-brained than me.

[–] midimalist@lemdro.id 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Have you tried to engage your core more? edit: Sorry in advance for the reddit link, but here you go https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/1h4j9sl/tifu_by_never_using_my_core_muscles_for_thirty/

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I appreciate the concern, but my problem is more on my ability to concentrate on what's in front of me. I'll be walking around or climbing up stairs while my brain is in la la land thinking about something else. That's normally how I end up clutzing out.

The logic in your post is sound though, I never did think about my core.

But I do work out and I do core workouts alongside arm day and leg day. If anything my core is the thing I'm strongest in.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you been assessed for add/adhd

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been diagnosed since I was 7 lol. Glad you noticed.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah damn well

I hope something new comes up about it. Good luck :c

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It doesn't cause me problems. I get by just fine.

Here's a fun fact for you: ADD is not an official classification anymore.

You're either ADHD Hyperactive or ADHD inattentive. I'm diagnosed with the latter.

Unlimited energy reserves would be nice. If I had half the energy I had when I was 16 I'd be fucking golden

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd upload a few languages. Instantly being able to speak and read an array of languages and traveling the world would be fun.

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I would immediately download more RAM. No hax. Really works.

[–] sntx@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I would use it as a Total Perspective Vortex and dump the scale of the universe into my mind.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Whatever is fun and makes money. Tired of being bored and broke all the time.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I too wouldn't mind uploading poll dancing abilities. I feel like that would help lose weight and get great core strength so quickly.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One way is making raytracing shaders for older games. I recall one korean dude whose patreon was raking in ~50k dollars a month, several of his releases/posts were about adding raytracing to Fallout 4

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! Sounds like a significant learning curve.

Not that I'm opposed. Currently reskilling myself from bored accountant to hopefully some sort of IT wizard. Just learning everything I can get my hands on and doing projects like building / maintaining a home server, building a PC, switched to Linux last year, and coding some small projects in Python.

I just feel like I'm learning such basic things and won't be able to actually make money with any of this for years. It's frustrating lol

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

25 years in IT here: you're on the right track. Tablet generation has really caused a brain drain.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

I think I'm going to get my nieces and nephews some pi5 desktops, I can't let them become teenagers without seeing a console.

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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Big dick energy

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 122 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Polyglotism. Being able to speak every language would be practically a superpower.

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