Like Neo in The Matrix and "I know kung fu", what one ability would you choose to upload directly to your mind? (lemmy.world)

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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Universal language module. Not to translate all into English but to understand all of them.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Just put this fish in your ear.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago

Take your pick:

1980s BBC (Jump to 2:05 if the timestamp doesn’t work).

2005 Movie

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

You're now a protocol droid.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Ok I think - except that I am absolute shit at protocol so now I'm gonna get someone killed.

[-] CitricBase@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Polyglotism. Being able to speak every language would be practically a superpower.

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

This is a neat idea until you're in a situation where you remember 38 different words for a thing, just not the one in the language you need

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I only speak one language fluently and one language extremely poorly.

The number of times I’ve been able to come up with the word I want in my second language and completely blanked on it in my native language baffles my mind.

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[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

If I could 'cheat' and say 'I know every language in the world', and that included programming languages and things like scientific notation as a language, I'd take that in a heartbeat. If not, I'd take programming, as at least then I can create things and make money.

If speaking every language included dead and forgotten languages too though, then it would be a very tough choice.

[-] shrodes@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is probably super pedantic (bloody programmers right?) but I really feel like it would depend on what is meant by “know every programming language”. Like being able to remember every syntax and construct is sort of useful but not all that practical. Understanding how to implement the language in a useful way is the valuable part, not just knowing the keywords.

I guess I would kind of compare it to the difference between being able to read Shakespeare and being able to write Shakespeare,

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

If we're being pedantic, in The Matrix, Neo says 'I know kung fu' to explain that he both knows what all the moves are, and how to use them. As that was the topic of the post, I used the same sentence structure to mean the same thing about all languages, including programming 😉

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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Ability to complete a household project with only 1 trip to the hardware store.

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 4 points 7 months ago

Impossible... that would break some fundamental law of physics or something

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago

I want the entirety of mathematics indellably etched into my mental model. I want to see the math behind everything in reality the way Neo saw the matrix code in the walls of the grubby apartment buildings.

[-] Cratermaker@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

What if that just drives you insane due to the problem described by Gödel's incompleteness theorem? Maybe you'd become susceptible to someone telling you "this statement is false".

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[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I'll do the same for physics. Together we shall reign.

[-] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago

11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 2 points 7 months ago

And when you discover that free will is an illusion because of deterministic patterns, what will you do then?

[-] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

Whatever it is physics demands they do, obviously.

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[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Download more RAM. My working memory is shit (ADHD).

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[-] MicrondeMMMMMMM@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago

Math, so so much math...

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 points 7 months ago

"I know how to make myself do the thing I planned to do."

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

Whatever is fun and makes money. Tired of being bored and broke all the time.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

One way is making raytracing shaders for older games. I recall one korean dude whose patreon was raking in ~50k dollars a month, several of his releases/posts were about adding raytracing to Fallout 4

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks! Sounds like a significant learning curve.

Not that I'm opposed. Currently reskilling myself from bored accountant to hopefully some sort of IT wizard. Just learning everything I can get my hands on and doing projects like building / maintaining a home server, building a PC, switched to Linux last year, and coding some small projects in Python.

I just feel like I'm learning such basic things and won't be able to actually make money with any of this for years. It's frustrating lol

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

25 years in IT here: you're on the right track. Tablet generation has really caused a brain drain.

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[-] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

How to people.

I have great ideas and am horrible at explaining them.

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[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I'd upload a few languages. Instantly being able to speak and read an array of languages and traveling the world would be fun.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

This is a good one. I interact with a lot of East and South Asians in my spare time, and I would love to speak all of their languages. Especially since their English is not the best (in my circle, that is).

[-] sep@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Read and write all languages. Be it swahili, mandarin, latin, hieroglyfs, python, c++ or java. ;)

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Is Maths a language?

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[-] theherk@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

You had me until Java.

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[-] sntx@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

I would use it as a Total Perspective Vortex and dump the scale of the universe into my mind.

[-] danhab99@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

If I could have something magical: I'd like to be able to accelerate my thinking so I can have as long as I want to think things through

If it's gotta be real: easier to use memory, I feel like I have no idea what's going on bc I forget shit, but it's not forgotten I just didn't remember that memory at the right time even though I had it..

Talking to people hasn't been going well lately

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[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I would immediately download more RAM. No hax. Really works.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

The ability to make an ability uploading tool.

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[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

I want to understand, intrinsically, and be able to manipulate to my liking, all the financial systems of the world.

At worst, I'd quickly become a well-paid accountant. At best, I'd become an extremely talented, untraceable, modern Robin Hood.

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[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago

The ability to upload any ability into my mind that I can think of and be amazing at it.

Shashahshaaa!

Runs away and throws pocket sand

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Found the guy that wishes for more wishes

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 points 7 months ago

Speaking Korean, I live here for 4 years already and despite pushing moderatelly to learn it, I don't speak it at all. Everything I learn I forget very fast again.

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