Poll: Would you take advice from your future self? (Read First)

[Cronqvist]

Preferably about 14-16 years ago, yes.

 

[Mr. Doe]

What others around me? Thats probably some bastard android constructed by one of my future enemies to stop me from becoming insanely powerful. Im taking the money.

 

[Zero=Interrupt]

Not only would I take the money, but I'd mug future me for HIS share of the money, making me even richer.

 

[Jedoro]

Future Me knows better than to tell me not to do something. He'd likely have come back because he knew if I had warning about how it could ruin my life, I could work to avert the disaster to come.

I don't think it would be as simple as that...what if future you was telling you not to take it BECAUSE you were too careful with your money, and screwed yourself over somehow? o=

Too careful? You don't know what I'd do with $15,375,000. I'd buy a car, guns, a full set of combat gear, an FFL, and a house right off the bat. I'd deal with the rest as I saw fit at the time, but I'd have all of that stuff paid off.

Future Me still knows he should have said it better in order to get his real intent across.

 

[Evilsanta]

Im going to take it! Screw my future self. I will be extra cautios when i have it.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Probably not, I never take advice from anyone really. I'll hear you out, but I'll probably ignore it.

 

[Ham_authority95]

I would take the money and hide it so I won't be tempted to use it until later.

EDIT: On second thought, I would only take %1 of the money.

He didn't say how much of it would ruin me...

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

Future me would not do anything to negatively affect the future of present me - future me would be ruining his own life by doing so. Therefore I trust future me totally.

However, I do like money a lot, soooo........ still no thanks.


Actually, in order for future me to know that taking the money is bad, present me must ignore him and take it. If I don't, he won't ever come back to warn me, so I will take the money, so then he will warn me, so I won't TIME PARADOX!

Ruining my life but getting rich or creating a time paradox with myself as part of the loop?
I'll take the money.

But if I take it anyway, future me wouldn't bother to come back and warn me because it would be a waste of time, therefore as he HAS come back, I must have not taken it. Which creates the paradox.

Both options leave us f***ed, don't they?

My brain hurts now.

 

[crazyfoxdemon]

I'd take the money... Going back in time to fuck with your younger self is the kinda thing I'd do... so yeah...

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

I'd take it. I know I'm the kind of guy that would travel through time just to mindfuck people.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I probably wouldn't. I would like the person to somehow prove that he is my future self, but if he randomly appeared then disappeared then that would be close enough to freak me out for a few seconds... Plus, right now, the only thing I would use a time machine for is to go back to the late 60's/early 70's to slap some hippies...

 

[Jackhorse]

Take the money I don't want any paradoxes and i'll just bury the money, then when i'm aged as I was when i gave the advice i'll go back and give the warning inspiring me to bury the money then have a lot o' money in later life.

That and y'know burying money is fun.

 

[RanD00M]

I would take to money.And then I would use it to go to a special someone,and take him with me to JAPAN!!

 

[Angus565]

I would take the money. It must be a fake me trying to cheat me out of my money,because the real me would tell myself what I did wrong and then tell me how to avoid it.
(I nearly had a seizure trying to word this right)

 

[JoshGod]

have you heard of a time paradox? i doubt i would gain access to time travel without that much money. therefore i would have to accept it to stop the universe imploding (dont accept money so no time travel so then how do i tell myself not to take it). infact why didnt future me just tell me how to deal with the issues as he would be aware i would think this. or atleast tell me how to access a time machine to prevent a rip in the space time continuum.

if he did tell me how to get to the time machine then i would not accept it.

 

[InnerRebellion]

Future me is probably an insensitive prick who is out to try and change what he became.
The money is mine!!
Wait how much money is that in US dollars?

 

[Booze Zombie]

I'd imagine he knows what he's talking about...
Then again, I do end up with all of this misery motivating me into inventing time travel and if I change the now, "future me" will never have existed and if he didn't exist, how would I have decided to change my mind about the money?

It could very well unravel all life as we know it or maybe my now non-existent self existed for that moment, physically and as a memory, but no longer exists within the future, but merely as a glimpse of a reality I destroyed by not taking the money, that glimpse having to exist so reality doesn't unravel from the fact that if I hadn't made the "bad" choice and then told my past self, I wouldn't be able to possibly know about the "bad" outcome because I just made the "good" choice, wiping old miserable me away and that would cause some serious issues?

I'll take the money and take my chances.

 

[Arawn.Chernobog]

Hm... Thanks future me, now please explain how it ruined your life so I can do the exact opposite with the money.

 

[Meta 99]

I would just take the money, and use it in a diffrent way than I had originally planned.
Of course if he still existed to come back in time, then obviosly it didn't work!

 

[JoJo]

I believe that time is unchangeable, so I wouldn't take the money, as I trust myself enough that I know my future self would have a good reason to stop me taking the money. I don't even care that much about money anyway, so it doesn't concern me that much...