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Which will you choose: the future or the past?
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My other post gave an answer which made sense.
I would want to know what moment in the future causes me the most stress, which I don't need to worry about at all.
No paradoxes, just convenience.
Also, I wasn't saying money making wouldn't work, only that your future you would cease to exist because you would have changed things.
If you're okay with suicide to offer your past self financial advice, then the same should be true of your future self.
Personally, erasing that timeline seems unacceptable.
Well, it's not me who will stop existing, that's 5 seconds from now me's problem. But like, she already doesn't exist. So really all I'm doing is changing which 5 seconds from now me has to deal with the burden of existence.
But any knowledge you gain will change your behavior in the future, it's unavoidable, and those changes will compound causing the divergence to grow over time.
The only way to avoid "erasing" the timeline is to propose a time travel mechanism through which the timeline never changes despite passing information to the past, and that'd be basically what I suggested, taken to a bit more extreme of a conclusion - that because any other possibility would cause a paradox, your future self must have already made the optimal choice and will be satisfied telling your past self what they already heard in the past themselves.
Well, either that, or you just continue existing in a different timeline, with no benefit from helping your past self.