Would you restart your life if...

[Drathnoxis]

Have you ever though about what you would do if you could go back and re-live your life over with all the knowledge and memories you have now? I think a lot of people would like to do this. You could avoid embarrassing or damaging mistakes that you've made, and you'd get an unfair advantage over everybody else based on your future knowledge.

However, what if you could do it, but everybody else gets their memories as well. Say the world turns back to the date of your birth, but you and everybody retains the memories that they have now. Would you still want to do it? What would you do differently? What would society even look like at that point with 7 billion people that have 30+ years of future knowledge?

 

[Baffle]

Yes, but only if I could live through the same time period -- I wouldn't want to be starting from now. Unless everyone knowing everything from now makes now happen then. Oh no! But no, it would be cool to do the 90s again, they were pretty good times.

 

[Gordon_4]

No, under those circumstances I would not take that opportunity.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Yes, but only if I could live through the same time period -- I wouldn't want to be starting from now. Unless everyone knowing everything from now makes now happen then. Oh no! But no, it would be cool to do the 90s again, they were pretty good times.

Yeah, it'd be more like now happening earlier. Though, there'd be a weird scramble going on to remake now, we wouldn't have the infrastructure and we'd have to reinvent certain technologies. And lock people up before they committed crimes, and we'd probably re-invade the Middle East.

Though, hopefully we'd do something about climate change then, rather than get complacent because we've got more time until we don't anymore.

 

[Baffle]

Though, hopefully we'd do something about climate change then, rather than get complacent because we've got more time until we don't anymore.

Have to wonder if we'd be better prepared for something like COVID, but I still don't think we would be. I think it, like climate change, would always be considered a bit pricy, something to worry about when we've got the spare money.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Have to wonder if we'd be better prepared for something like COVID, but I still don't think we would be. I think it, like climate change, would always be considered a bit pricy, something to worry about when we've got the spare money.

Hmmm, be interesting to see what the 90s would have been with loads more anti-vaxxers and people claiming fake news all the time.

With covid, though, the UK knew well in advance that they were unprepared for something like covid (they did a study a few years beforehand) and just chose to do nothing. I'd like to think that other nations would change their priorities at least a little.

 

[Baffle]

Hmmm, be interesting to see what the 90s would have been with loads more anti-vaxxers and people claiming fake news all the time.

We had a surge of them (anti-vaxxers) in the late 90s with the MMR jab, though nothing so widespread.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Wouldn't that just turn everyone into a creep trying to take advantage of everyone else, rather than just me? And wouldn't that just make everyone super depressed when they then find out they don't have special pre-cog privilege over everyone else, and now they're stuck decades back in the past?

Yeah, if that's the case, no thank you.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Wouldn't that just turn everyone into a creep trying to take advantage of everyone else, rather than just me? And wouldn't that just make everyone super depressed when they then find out they don't have special pre-cog privilege over everyone else, and now they're stuck decades back in the past?

Yeah, if that's the case, no thank you.

Everyone has just de-aged umpteen years, which is a plus.

...

Except for people younger than the cut-off point, who will now no longer exist, and the circumstances for them being conceived will be different, so they never will. Which is more than a little terrifying.