DarrinBrunner comments on If you could see one statistic above every person's head, that is updated in real time and never goes away, what would you choose?

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (12 children)

The time and date of their death.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 45 points 2 months ago (7 children)

It would be interesting to see this update in realtime. You see someone about to get in their car, with a death time 5 mins from now. You call out "hey", they stop, see you were talking to someone else. The date updates to 30 years in the future, as that momentary pause meant they won't be in the place they would have when someone runs a red light.

Somewhere unseen, someone's number changes from 20 years away to 5 mins away.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

My thought was that it would be immutable. It wouldn't change even if I told them.

I don't think I'd tell very many people. It's not something I'd want people to know about me. Also, the few I told wouldn't believe me and if I proved to others that I knew this, I think they'd see me, rightly so, as some sort of freak. The temptation to ask would be overwhelming, but they don't really want to know.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It kind of ruins the concept if you can't use the information to change the outcome. Or maybe just makes it sad, every time you try to save someone they die at that time anyway. Then over time you work out that the clock knew what actions you were going to do, and by trying to interfere with the people with short times you actually caused their deaths.

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Very Cassandra to have knowledge of the future but be unable to change it

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)