Stipulations:

  • You cannot die and are immune to disease
  • You cannot alter the future such that you change the world from your point of origin. i.e. You cannot become so famous that future people recognize you as immortal.
  • If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.
  • remon@ani.social
    8·
    3 小时前

    How do you survive until modern day?

    I just do … you literally said I cannot die.

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 小时前

      There is the caveats they put in that you’ve got to make sure no one finds out how immortal or you’ll just cease to exist and can’t change history in any significant way or be met with the same fate

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 小时前

    What happens when you get to your birth date? Do you stop existing as a time-traveller and start being a baby? I was born in 1952, so I’d get less than seven years of time travel. Hardly worth the effort, especially if I don’t remember it.

  • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 小时前

    Seems like I would survive no matter what?

    Since I’m not allowed to become famous I guess I’d go find a sweet island somewhere and periodically send world governments anonymous letters about things to avoid, if I can, rules were kind of unclear, am I allowed to change the future just as long as it’s not to my personal benefit or not at all cause that going to be impossible, and enjoy my life

  • bigbangdangler@reddthat.com
    5·
    6 小时前

    I would have said start betting like Biff Tannen, but that probably will end up changing the timeline “too much”.

    But if I can’t die and am immune to disease, I guess I exploit that. Can’t drown so I’ll hop in an ocean and go somewhere. No need for food or lodging. I’ll just wander for the next 100 years and peoplewatch.

  • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    4 小时前

    The world is big and full of wonders - working, travelling, meeting people, sleeping with them … yeah that would do me, if you don’t mind moving slowly on a budget then it’s doable without too much stress.

    I read a book a while back where someone was presented with having a very long lifespan. As long as they wanted, basically. And their reaction was that they could take their time to really savour life, since it was much less limited :-)

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    64·
    12 小时前

    Immune to disease? Welp, time to become a massive slut throughout the ages.

    I would survive on Mamie Van Doren, Brigitte Bardot, Sheree North, Rebecca De Mornay, Pam Grier, Rosie Perez… I mean I could go on.

    …I mean someone’s gotta make horny posts without Violet, right?

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
    6·
    7 小时前

    I move to a country where you can have quality of life at very cheap costs. One of the larger Greek islands maybe. I try to live healthy even despite the “immune” feature because life is better then.

    Make a fortune of course from knowing the future but keep it secret. Remain unknown to the greater public.

    Buy a little house and a patch of land to grow my vegetables. Learn languages. Make friends.

    Try to do ‘good things’ with the money (find out what good things are…).

  • STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 小时前

    I wonder how many people in this thread have read/seen 11.22.63 before.

    Without some amount of preparation, I think I’d just end up mostly working for cash and living out of a van for most of that time, or otherwise staying off-grid. There’s a surprising amount of paperwork involved in legally existing as a person.

    Also, since memorizing statistics is not one of my hobbies, I’d want/need some kind of written ledger to have an edge in back-alley sports betting.

    Just for fun’s sake though, I’d try my hand at writing professionally again, as a novelist, but just ripping off the plots of movies and TV shows that haven’t been filmed yet. Self-publishing everything under pen names of course, to preserve my anonymity.

  • ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
    54·
    12 小时前

    if I am immortal then just do my own thing. Work a job for a while and move on. Rinse and repeat. I have been a nobody for 63 years. It is not really that hard. You know like the Highlander.

  • ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    39·
    12 小时前

    As I was reading this, I disappeared in a flash of light and landed in 1945. But I have a plan.

    • Learn acoounting, get a job, grind for 10 or so years
    • Start investing in Ford, GE etc. and wait for the compound interest to kick in
    • Buy a farm, continue to invest. Retire “early”
    • Grow a beard, get some white hair paint
    • Travel to “relatives” in Australia for 6 months every year
    • While in Australia, get rid of beard, set up alternative identity as my own nephew, get involved in fledgling computer domain, invest
    • Back home, take up fishing, end up disappearing at sea one day, nephew inherits everything
    • I am nephew. Got enough money now to stop working, buy a vineyard in NZ, spend 6 months in the year abroad
    • Invest in IBM, I should be filthy rich by now
    • Hire professionals to set up a dozen or so alternate identities in English speaking countries. Kill nephew, avoid Australia for the next 20 years
    • Numbered Swiss accounts, different looks, pro theatre makeup, the works. By now my 10+ offshore companies own 10% of Berkshire Hathaway between them
    • Rotate identities as needed. Invest in the dot com bubble from 100+ offshore shell companies. Cash in and buy tech stocks after the crash. I am now richer than God, but still not intervene in not-yet-current affairs
    • No posh events, no media, no socials ffs. My ghosts come and go. I own a few law firms that take care of business and identity management. When suspicions arise, I change countries. Ireland works for a while. I now own 10-20% of all major tech companies, because I bought them before it was cool
    • I get into crypto early. Money has no meaning anymore. I mark the days and months remaining to May 19, 2026, when all of this began. I need to insert myself into my old life right as past me begins the journey, will probably feign a nasty flu afterwards to get back on track. Small price to pay for total freedom

    And here we are. Money wise, I own about half the world and now I can finally act. Where should I start?

    • bstix@feddit.dk
      1·
      4 小时前

      Ftting into your current life when you make it to the present would be noticable since you would’ve aged 81 years in the meantime.

    • Atropos@lemmy.world
      132·
      11 小时前

      Please dump enough “political contributions” into us politics to get intelligent, empathetic, progressive people in charge.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        7 小时前

        “If you vary the timeline too much, you will cease to exist.”

        Even if you want to be altruistic enough to sacrifice yourself for the good of humanity, you’ll be wiped out long before you’re able to change enough to lead to lasting improvement.

      • NateNate60@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 小时前

        It’s pretty rare for good people to become immensely wealthy and stay good people. Money corrupts, and once you’re to a point where money is no longer survival but a high score, that starts to drive your thinking.

        • Atropos@lemmy.world
          5·
          10 小时前

          Absolutely correct.

          Maybe immortality, infinite wealth, and a hundred year long life won’t corrupt THIS person?

          Brb gotta go pray to the Easter bunny …

          • ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            5 小时前

            Living 81 years with the prospect of annihilation if one rocks the boat too much will change a man. Likewise honing the kind of duplicitous skills required to simply survive the attention of the world.

            So, would my moral compass stay intact? If I don’t work at it, no - I’m under no illusion that it would. What I expect to happen is that I would continue to avoid the public eye. But once the shackles are off, there’s no telling where this goes.

            Stepping out of this role for a bit, if I had that kind of wealth today, what would I invest in? Education and science. Press freedom. Rule of law. Anti-poverty programs (part of education). Probably others too, but those are the essentials.

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
      3·
      8 小时前

      Super excellent. The only notes to add:

      Steal and cycle through 2 new US identities every 10 years. Always churn new idienties faster than you expect. You can be Bob age 20, Jerry age 30 and Sid age 40 in LA, Chicago, and NYC, respectively, at the same time.

      Start a shell company where all your identities are the board. Use it to buy land in LA and NYC.

      Gamble for supplemental income.