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1) If a crystal ball could tell u the truth about any one thing about yourself, life, the future, or anything else, what would u want to know & why?

2) Terrorists send the president a message saying that unless he gives them $25 billion, they'll detonate a nuclear bomb in Manhattan. What should the president do? What would you do?

3) Do you believe in God? If not, do u think u might nonetheless pray if you were in a life-threatening situation?

4) Have your character & humanity been forged more by pleasure & success or by pain & disappointment?

5) If you were given a million dollars to donate anonymously to a stranger or cause of your choice, how would you dispose of it?


Got a book as a gift recently. The title is "The Book of Questions". There were 291 of those & I chose 5 at random. I'd guess somebody else has read this book.

Answer 3 or more if you choose to. Could be interesting.

Posters please signify your answers with the corresponding question numbers.

1) I would like to know the state of the world in 200 years.

2)Not really realistic. I can't do anything.

3) Pascal's Wager

4) The latter.

5) I would give it to one person and hope it changes their life. Not sure how I would come up with that person, but it would be random.

1) What the proof of P vs NP is

2) You dont negotiate with terrorists

3) No idea if God exists or not

4) Life is pain

5) Id throw trashbags full of $1 bills out of an airplane

1) I'd ask for the answer to the next 4 questions

2) defer to national security
3) i'd pray if all else failed
5) mail the check to barry greenstein

Greenstien? I think you should at least give Sklansky his Sklansky bucks back.

2) get Jack Bauer on the phone

What’s the movie where a girl gets drunk at a party and a bunch of guys line up outside a car to bang her, but some dude tries to stop it and gets beat up because the other guys think he’s trying to cut

1) Is my music really any good?

2) Give them 25 billion and nuke them.

3) No. No.

4) Pain and disappointment.

5) Hookers and blow. I'd put the rest away to pay the rent.

1) proof for the Riemann Hypothesis

2) manhattan would cease to exist

3) no, and yes

4) pain

5) Tabby’s Place

1) Back to the Future style sports results.
2) Laugh but then check with my security how some idiots got a message directly to me and ensure better screening practices going forward.
3) Which one? I have vague beliefs in a few deities. Would likely have more important things to think about in a life-threatening situation though.
4) Pleasure & success.
5) To the cause of increasing my bank account.

Why do hot dogs generally come in packs of 10 and hot dog buns come in packs of 8?

So I gotta find the common multiple to get the proper bun/wiener ratio? Wtf.

If you're regularly eating hot dogs at home, you're probably the kind of person who slices them up and puts them in you Kraft mac 'n cheese. That's what the extra two dogs are for.

1) If a crystal ball could tell u the truth about any one thing about yourself, life, the future, or anything else, what would u want to know & why?

I'd want to know if I'm going to live past age 75. I'm 54 now (both of my parents died before age 70), and knowing this would help me better budget my retirement money.

2) Terrorists send the president a message saying that unless he gives them $25 billion, they'll detonate a nuclear bomb in Manhattan. What should the president do? What would you do?

He should offer them $5 billion, no questions asked, if they drop it instead on Staten Island.

3) Do you believe in God? If not, do u think u might nonetheless pray if you were in a life-threatening situation?

No...I might pray if I were desperate, but I'm sure I might not be thinking clearly at that moment.

4) Have your character & humanity been forged more by pleasure & success or by pain & disappointment?

[shrug]

5) If you were given a million dollars to donate anonymously to a stranger or cause of your choice, how would you dispose of it?

Maybe split it between the Southern Poverty Law Center and some type of "Chess in Schools" foundation

why do you sometimes write u and sometimes write you (within a sentence even)

1. All future Super Bowl and World Series winners. Not only so I can wager on them ala Biff from BTTF2, but once the predictions end, I know when the end of US or possibly world will be.

2. Nuke the terrorists first.

3. Yes, I believe in God.

4. Forged by all of those things and with hope for the future.

5. If I say, it wouldn’t be anonymously.

Is there a God?


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1) full scope of the cosmos at every scale

5. givewell.org works to find the most effective charities. I give to the Schistosomiasis Control Initative. Schistosomiasis affects hundreds of millions in Africa and other places, mostly poor children, causes life-long growth defects and learning disabilities among other things. It costs $1.50 in donations to treat one child for one year. For just a few grand you can eliminate a costly and painful disease AND raise the average IQ of an entire village in Africa. That amount of money would accomplish next to nothing at any first-world charity.

https://www.givewell.org/charities/S...rol-Initiative

6. what will be Taco Bell's March "Big Item"? need to know for planning purposes, thanks.

1. the full truth about our physical make-up (matter, molecules, etc).

2. this is a game theory problem. at first it seems like if they can prove the threat is real you need to start negotiating and save millions of lives. but if you set a precedent for negotiating with terrorists you incentivize people to threaten and kill for money, eventually leading to more loss of life and of the resources (work hours, payoffs) you're using to deal with the threats.

if this is a rare, credible threat and you are confident you can keep the negotiations secret, maybe you should go that route. but I would lean towards a hard stance of no negotiating.

3. thought God was bs from a young age. now I am open to the idea of some kind of higher power but not one that communicates with and directly interferes with the lives of specific humans. no chance I would pray.

4. pleasure and success. lived a lucky life so far.

5. anonymous and has to be to a stranger? I'd go with something on givewell.org.

more curious about this than about my #1 but I think mine would be more useful for humans.

Can't find it on Google, but I'll bet you can find all of these on Yahoo! Answers.

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1) There is buried treasure somewhere. How do I find it?

2) You don't negotiate with terrorists.

I'd inform them that we can remove any country off the map with the football that is following me everywhere.

3) Don't believe in God, been near death a few times. Didn't pray. Just like kicking a gun from a criminal's hand, that **** only happens in the movies.

4) pain and disappointment, though the magnitude is much larger when you touch pleasure and success and lose it before you had the chance to really grapple with the ideas.

5) I'd go to Malibu and dump it into the ocean and scream "free money!" The trust fund babies wouldn't bother paddling after it.

Don't you mean "sea money"? hur hur hur