… all the time to come to earth but you arrive as a billionaire would you do it?

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      If you had the choice to be a billionaire if you go back a few million years in earths age but have to wait it out til you reach the age of humans. Would you do it and wait?

      Practically you already waited all that time but you weren’t aware of it. Now imagine having to watch it.

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          I think they’re saying two things. 1) You have to live for a few million years in the past in order to get a billion dollars when you reach the present age. 2) You can’t just go to sleep for a long time to get out of the scenario.

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    What am I doing for this time? Am I fixed in place, unable to move and communicate? Do I have an interesting view? Of what? Do I have my current sense of self and identity?

    What happens when I get back to now? What about everyone I knew? Do they still exist? What happens to my stuff? Was I never around to buy it in the first place?

    And what kind of billionaire? Like I’m sitting on a pile of $1,000,000,000 worth of precious metals? Or a bunch of less liquid assets like stock?

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    Man, the causality of that is rough.

    But I can’t imagine wanting to live to a hundred, much less that kind of time span.

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    The Hadean ended 4.031 billion years ago, so I would “earn” 1/4 Dollar (or whatever currency) per year?

    Even with just waiting and not having to survive/eat during that time it would be a pretty bad deal…