/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.9382209]

Would you rather be given 25 million €/$/£ taxfree or given a one-off chance to learn and understand the complete contents of a book of your choice, like magic from in 1 second?

[Anonymous No.9382220]

>>9382209
I'd take the 25 million. Then I'd have a life time to learn whatever I want.
t. not a brainlet, can self learn. (heck, I could even pay for someone to teach me if the worst came to the worst)

[Anonymous No.9382223]

>>9382209
Latter for money is not relevant to me.

[Anonymous No.9382243]

>>9382223
Wtf is that pic?

[Anonymous No.9382245]

Why is this even a question, except for providing the maths autists yet another opportunity to show off their pigheadedness?

[Anonymous No.9382248]

>>9382209
Do I only understand the content of the book, or all information that are required to be theoretically able to understand the content, as well?

[Anonymous No.9382251]

>>9382209
if it's just one book then I'll take the money
if it's as many books as I want then the latter

[Anonymous No.9382255]

>>9382209
>print out wikipedia
>pick second option

[Anonymous No.9382256]

What use would just a book have?

[Anonymous No.9382258]

>>9382248
One is not possible without the other

[Anonymous No.9382260]

>>9382255
And then what? It will have you achieve nothing bedsides maybe winning quiz shows.

[Anonymous No.9382262]

>>9382220
I second.

[Anonymous No.9382264]

>>9382258
it's also not possible to learn a book by magic you fucking dick

[Anonymous No.9382311]

25mil$ is somewhere between 7-10 times the average lifetime expected earnings of a person with an advanced degree in a profitable STEM field. I'll cash out please.

[Anonymous No.9382341]

>>9382262
>>9382220
Doesn't mean your learning capacities are unlimited.

>>9382264
T. Buzz killington

[Anonymous No.9382370]

Put 25 mil in index funds with an average of 6-7% interest yearly. Withdraw 3% yearly so that inflation doesn't rape your fund. That's $750k your first year. Now you have a lifetime to learn assuming you're not a brainlet.

[Anonymous No.9382391]

>>9382260
You would know all math and physics formulas and have in complete understanding of them.

[Anonymous No.9382426]

>>9382209
Anybody who doesn't choose the money is incredibly retarded.
This is the real world, not Dragonlance; there are no arcane alchemical tomes full of earth-shaking knowledge here.
There's just textbooks and novels and technical manuals and other prosaic crap.

[Anonymous No.9382451]

graphic design is my passion

[7 No.9382452]

>>9382209

I read this without touching it.

> I also eat symbols and speak signs.

Signs and symbols, m9...the key to the universe. Infinite in 1, 1 is all.

THAT'S knowledge, THAT'S power.

[Anonymous No.9382468]

>>9382452
You won't know if that is the key to the universe, you don't even know what that means.. it doesn't even mean anything.

[Anonymous No.9382476]

So if I pick durrett's probability book, then I'll automatically be as good as durrett himself? The choice is obvious.
>Biggest boss in probability
>any tenure track you want

[Anonymous No.9382497]

>>9382370
Or you know just have 25 million dollars in your bank account and use Visa to pay for things. Unless of course you have experience in investing, a degree in business, willingness to work 40 hours a week to support your investment, and lots of contacts in the industries you've invested in.

Investing is just massive warfield and good choice is to stay out.

[Anonymous No.9382528]

>>9382452
You're mistaking shortcuts for simplifications, pleb.

[7 No.9382554]

>>9382468

Shut up brainlet.
-Confucius

[7 No.9382567]

>>9382528

Wrong. Be more correct, please.

> Intuition+Education=Shortcuts

Quantum (((mechanics))) is completely bullshit. I can't sit through a video without saying "Wrong." over and over.

Look back, not (((forward))).

> Shortcut to infinity!

[Anonymous No.9382576]

>>9382223

he might be smart but he says retarded things

[Anonymous No.9382581]

I would pay some silly publisher $10,000 bucks to put together every major book on every major subject ever and then use the magic to understand that book

then i'd go be a consultant for the us federal government and make gorillions

[Anonymous No.9382590]

>>9382581
What if it cost 25 million to put together the book?

[Anonymous No.9382596]

The money obviously.
I could live like a king while still having enough time to read whatever the fuck I wanted.
Being ultra smart isn't enough to buy a Rolls Royce.

[Anonymous No.9382670]

>>9382554
confusius and yourself didn't and won't ever know anything. Get used to it delusional cunt.

[Anonymous No.9382682]

>>9382223
>I know how to control the universe

Sure you do lmao

[7 No.9382732]

>>9382670

You're super intelligent. Unfortunately this means in relation this would make me smarter than god.

You're delusional in your own smrts. Im just in a "permanent state of psychosis".

You best recognize the difference now, bwoy.

[Anonymous No.9382757]

I would take the latter any day of the week. I would get one of the most dense and complicated books i could find in maths or physics.

[7 No.9382773]

>>9382757

Why when a pamphlet of symbols would say more in less space.

Eternal Language>Living Language

Speak one to learn the other, speak the other to speak to the gods, speak to the gods to Know God.

[Anonymous No.9382822]

you could make a billion dollars understanding the bible.

[Anonymous No.9382878]

>>9382209
With learning things lik coding or abstract mathematics and combining it with your inherent creativity you might strike gold in a fashion which 25 million couldn't tip improving your life quality or financial wealth.

[Anonymous No.9383806]

>>9382209
Alright I choose to understand the entire contents of the internet

[Anonymous No.9383812]

Take 25 million. Invest, then build wells and schools in Africa without profit. Donate my homeless, diseased corpse to a hospital for students to dissect.

[Anonymous No.9383850]

>>9382822
Already been done kid.
Have you ever heard about the Catholic Church?

[Anonymous No.9384264]

>>9382260
Then he could go to the quiz show where price is a million/few millions of dollars and win. So it's win-win.

[Anonymous No.9384374]

>>9382567

[Anonymous No.9384895]

Anyone who doesn't say the book is an idiot.

Learn some book on some subject that only 1 or 2 people on the planet fully comprehend, like rocket propulsion or airplane engineering.
Then get a job with Boeing or Elon Musk and up making $50 million a year.

[Anonymous No.9384913]

>make a book of everything on the internet
>learn the complete content of this book in 1 second
>use your newly acquired knowledge of hacking to get into anyone's bank's account
>steal billions of dollars

knowledge is power

[Anonymous No.9385162]

>>9384913
this pretty much wins.
Although I'd use my knowledge to destroy the systems and the guys that calls the shots, a la deus ex.

[Anonymous No.9385309]

>>9384913
>>9385162
I can tell you guys are newfriends. This is unethical and not something /sci/ would do. Ever. Did you come from /reddit/?

[Anonymous No.9385330]

>>9384895
Learning is easy making money is hard tard.

[Anonymous No.9386089]

>>9382209
I'd fucking learn quantum mechanics

[Anonymous No.9386210]

>>9382209
money because half the fun is actually learning things.

[Anonymous No.9386217]

>>9382209
I would use it on a bible.

[Anonymous No.9386223]

>>9384913
>make a book of everything on the internet
>learn the complete content of this book in 1 second
>7 trillion terabytes of furry and tranny porn metls your brain instantaneously

[Anonymous No.9386276]

>>9382497
What do you think a index fund is? They literally do the work for you.

[Anonymous No.9386278]

>>9385309
omg amoral scientists, that can't be! Must be r*dd*t..

[Anonymous No.9386840]

>>9385330
You may not be learning the right stuff then
Some knowledge is rare, relatively and capable of generating money, lots of money.

>>9386210
How does. That work? Teach me ..