HACKER Q&A
📣 JohnDSDev

Would you want to know when and how you die?


If you had a time machine, and the only thing you could use it for was to go see yourself in the future die would you use it or not? Why or why not?


  👤 soulbadguy Accepted Answer ✓
Is the information actionable ?

👤 kylecazar
Definitely not. I've learned to live comfortably with the fact that I'll die one day (and really understand/internalize it). Knowing exactly when could potentially disturb the peace that I've found.

👤 KomoD
No, not really. It sounds stressful.

👤 tim-tday
You can use actuarial math and get pretty damned close. Like within five years with 80% confidence. Not as much romance in that as there is in a Time Machine.

👤 mikewarot
I'd be shown myself being murdered by the operator of the time machine, after asking far too many questions about its theory of operation.

Nope