What if you knew everything?

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Housebroken Lunatic said:
Nautical Honors Society said:
Since I knew everything, I would find a way to stop knowing everything.

I mean knowledge is great and all, but if I knew everything that means I would know all the thoughts and feelings of every living thing on the planet..and honestly that would get annoying.
Then again, if you knew everything, you should know of a way to actually make yourself appriceate your all encompassing knowledge and keep yourself from getting annoyed by it. Why not do that instead?
Because if I knew everything that means that I would know myself even better than I know myself now and just thinking about knowing all those things is annoying me.

So imagine the annoyance I would experience if I knew to a greater extent how much all those things would annoy me?
 

Housebroken Lunatic

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Nautical Honors Society said:
Because if I knew everything that means that I would know myself even better than I know myself now and just thinking about knowing all those things is annoying me.

So imagine the annoyance I would experience if I knew to a greater extent how much all those things would annoy me?
... I say: destroy the universe and ask questions later! >:D
 

LadyRhian

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I'd spend my time bettering humanity, reversing entropy and figuring out how to make myself immortal without the side-effects of endless boredom. Then, I'd invent FTL Drive and help humanity populate the stars... if I didn't commit suicide over the stupidity that seems to afflict most of humanity these days. :p
 

ReckzB

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Hm, if this ability to know all comes with a side-order of precognition, then I'd enter the highest-dealing lottery in the world - and win, of course. Then I'd spend a decent amount of that money hiring an excellent team of video-game design specialists to create my ideal video-game, with myself on the production team as well. Technically I could make the entire game myself - knowing what I know - and probably have it out in a year if I was quick enough, but I don't want to work alone, that'd be boring.

If I only knew everything up to the moment where I miraculously gained the power to know 'all'... then I guess I'd use my newfound intellect to find some other way to make millions of dollars and basically do what I just said. Probably several times over.

Also, I'd disbelieve Stephanie Meyer and her abysmal abominations out of existence. Because I could totally do that.
 

Arisato-kun

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I'd better humanity eventually. For a little while though I'd just screw with people.

Plus I'd make a killing gambling. ;D
 

The Arc of Eden

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I'd end the world. Maybe throw in a zombie apocalypse for shits and giggles. You know, give people some hope.

That or figure out how to fly and breathe in space like superman. Then go to random planets throughout the universe and create epic structures that allude to my awesomeness in a completely new language but call myself something vague like God or the chosen one. Then create a new dimension to live in with an endless kingdom filled with people created by me, and leave behind some magical secret door in the center of the moon and have all those structures allude to it as well. And when the rest of humanity finally finds me have a party and say "You've found me! Congratulations! Now get out!"

Then maybe have the 2 dimensions fight it out in some epic universal brawl... Yes, there will be Brawl.
 

PatrickXD

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I suppose I would confirm or destroy the hopes of all men. I would tell them the meaning of life, or that there isn't a meaning of life, and tell them if people are ever going to walk on Mars and if there are aliens or if faster than light travel is possible.
 

atomicmeatballs

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I'd go to Mars and build a gigantic floating castle after some reporters ask me whether or not I'm giving people cancer.
 

Shameless

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I will create an AI that helps humanity but in the same times destroys it. (yes I know I am mean =P)
 

Tharwen

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Well... that's a really hard concept to define, since it doesn't state whether 'everything' means 'the location and state of every particle in the universe as well as the shape of the universe they inhabit' or 'enough that you could correctly answer any question put to you by a human'. I have a feeling the second one is an infinite amount of knowledge.
 

Billion Backs

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Your limited hardware would not be able to handle it. Not to speak of software. After thousands of years of people dressed in strange clothes spouting bullshit about how humans should be subservient and not try to be a god, becoming what could easily qualify for a god in most mythologies would be pretty mind shattering for some people.

The first thing that would happen is losing your "humanity". A concept people praise all the time, especially in cheesy fiction. A concept you'd overcome, because being human is being limited, a slave to a lot of things and concepts beyond control and often even understanding.

Knowing everything, as in EVERYTHING, would take incredible amounts of memory and processing power because of, well, everything. If you've had those things, you'd overcome the concept of time itself - by knowing every single particle's location, their past movement, and their future movement, you'd know everything and be able to see both into the past and into the future indefinitely. Sure, it is likely that there are some randomizing effects involved, and a lot of generic mind-fuckery in the field of quantum physics, but if we ignore that, I'd say you'd probably be pretty bored.

Being all-knowing would remove your primal stimuli for survival, and your drive for learning new things because there wouldn't be new things to know. That would shatter your world. Literally. You'd scoff at all the religions and traditions and other things often credited with providing meaning to life because you'd know it's not true. You'd become an absolute nihilist awaiting for inevitable destruction of everything through heat death or "big crunch", or whatever. The latter is less likely, but entropy will get ya.

Of course, that is assuming that you will also gain immortality along with omniscience. Which is sensible enough, because your brain wouldn't nearly have enough physical memory to hold even a single percent of total knowledge.
 

HK_01

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I'd sell some of my incredible knowledge and become a millionaire billionaire.
 

Keava

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I would most likely be sitting in a corner of a small room without windows of the local asylum, giggling to myself while nervously glancing around, every now and then muttering " I know..i know... you dont know..but i know".
 

JJMUG

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I would go insane and destroy the universe by preforming an experiment to prove that this existence is real and not thought up by someone else.
 

Betancore

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I'd be very bored. I like learning new things, questioning things I'm taught, and just having the opportunity to discover. Chances are, even if I knew everything, no one would believe me until I died. Then they'd all be, "Oh, she wasn't a crazy raving lunatic after all!" Because I'm just unlucky like that. They'd probably believe me if I cured cancer though. So I might solve some of the world's problems. Then twiddle my thumbs.
 

Eclectic Dreck

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I'm pretty sure life would no longer be worth living. If it were not for the thrill of discovery, why SHOULD I get out of bed in the morning?
 

Necrofudge

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I probably wouldn't be doing anything at all. If I knew EVERYTHING, then I would probably just achieve enlightenment and meditate in a temple somewhere far away for the rest of my life. Or cure cancer. Whichever comes first.