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If you could ask one question and get a 100% true answer, what would it be and why? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] NemoWuMing@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Someone actually was once offered the opportunity to ask such a question. Here is the question that was asked:

What is the content of the pair in which the first half is the best question I can ask, and the second half is the answer to that question?

Here is the answer received:

The best question you can ask is the question you just asked, and the answer to that question is the one you are receiving now.

[–] AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you want to game the system, the best way to do it would be to ask something that has a ridiculously long answer so you can get the most information possible out of it. For example you could ask, "what are the full contents of the largest, most useful collection of knowledge humanity will ever have, condensed down small enough for us to process?" That'd probably get you a futuristic multi-petabyte hard drive that can still plug into your computer and has a version of Wikipedia from like 10,000 years in the future.

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

The monkey's finger curls down as a lossy algorithm is applied.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where exactly is the closest alien civilization located?

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

What would be the scariest possible answer to this?

I feel like finding out either "disturbingly close" or "far enough away that we'd never reach it before the heat death of the universe" would both be pretty terrifying answers. Or even if the answer somehow turned out to be "there aren't any"

[–] DrugsMcChrist@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

what are the exact numbers for the next Powerball drawing, in winning order?

...don't fuck with me, genie, I got problems.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The number is the same as that of a Chinese fortune cookie lotto number. 50 people win an and split a 5 million dollar jackpot, yourself included.

You get about $70k.

[–] clegko@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shit man, I'd be happy with a 7k jackpot tbh. 70k would be hella worth it.

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Ask for the lottery numbers instead, that would igve you like a million, sounds better to me...

Still I wonder if thats really worth it, probably not. You could have ANY question answered and you chose to get a couple lf dollars richer instead?

At least ask for one of ghe millinium questions, that way you at least find out somethinf useful while at the same time getting the multu-million dollar prize money

[–] cabbagee@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey I can answer that 100% truthfully. I don't know :)

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

That TECHNICALLY doesnt answer the question because he didnt ask what you know, he asked what the next numbers are.

[–] Ainiriand@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did she love me?

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[–] silencioso@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How can I live forever?

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Thats easy: You can't.

100% truthfully answered. Youre welcome :)

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? Just so I can check Douglas Adams' work. There's just no other way.

[–] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Giving up wealth, fortune, and fame for cosmic knowledge? You’re a real frood dude, candelestine!

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

What about asking for thr answer to one of the Millenium Prize Problems? That way youd get rich and still contribute knowledge to science?

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is "No" the answer to this question?

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Negative.

What do I get :D

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wish for you to answer what I should wish for.

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thats not a question.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How about 'What answer would you give to the best question I could ask you?'

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

The answer is 42.

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where do you get your answers from?

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

I can answer that 100% truthfully for you:

I get my answers from my memory or sometimes feom media.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who were the sea people and what really happened with the bronze age collapse?

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The bronze age collapse was likely caused by widespread draught from what I've read. The evidence points to the sea people being a conglomeration of neighboring groups who took to the sea raiding for survival.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

That still doesn't really explain, why so many civilizations collapsed over such a relatively wide geographical range.

It especially doesn't explain, why so many of them just seem to have vanished almost over night.

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