Submitted 3 weeks ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Time for some trolling. xD
Definitely doing that for Harry Potter books lol, fuck that author (She who shall not be named).
Best let them come up with the idea, then you publish it the next day, and watch the author’s reaction:
“Someone has already published a book on the same idea? Nooo wayyy!”
[Insert “U Mad Bro” Trollface Meme]
Douglas Adams already worked out the situation:
Lallafa wrote about a girl who had left him and precisely what he thought about that. Long after his death his poems were found and wondered over. News of them spread like morning sunlight. For centuries they illuminated and watered the lives of many people whose lives might otherwise have been darker and dryer. Then, shortly after the invention of time travel, some major correcting fluid manufacturers wondered whether his poems might have been better still if he had had access to say a few words to that effect. They traveled the time waves; they found him. They explained the situation – with some difficulty – to him, and did indeed persuade him. In fact they persuaded him to such effect that he became extremely rich at their hands, and the girl about whom he was otherwise destined to write with such precision never got around to leaving him, and in fact they moved out of the forest to a rather nice pad in town and he frequently commuted to the future to do talk shows, on which he sparkled wittily.
I can’t help but feel Douglas was poking fun at himself, considering how his editors had to lock him in a room to finish So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish.
also
[The Guide's] editors, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied [some] information off the back of a packet of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly torturous Galactic Copyright Laws. It's interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backwards in time, through a temporal warp, and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the very same laws.
I’d be all up in them Dead Sea Scrolls adding a preface page with a boilerplate “this is a work of fiction, any similarities to persons living or dead or undead are purely coincidental” disclaimer.
I’d like to win the lottery about 40 times in a row. See how long it takes to get the lottery people or the government to try and assassinate me.
Then donate all my money to charity and time travel out of there until the heat dies down.
I would travel the US and buy one winning ticket for a small jackpot from each state I visit. Then I’d donate it all to a gambling addiction recovery charity. Or an advertising smear campaign against playing the lotto.
For full chaos, send back a history book and watch people try to change it, for better or for worse.
Calm down Satan, we wanna do a little trolling, not create a butterfly nuke.
Send down Wikipedia. Oooooooh that’d do it. And it’s probably about as close to objective as can be hoped, I know it actually isn’t, nothing can be, but it’s overall close.
Was looking for this.
call it parry hotter
I love that the body text is exactly what I thought when I saw the title before opening the post fully 🤣
Reminds me of one of my favorite time travel movies, The History of Time Travel
Such a great time-travel movie. One of my favorites too!
I’ve thought before that if i were to be dropped back maybe 200 years ago i could maybe do okay for myself by passing off existing stories as mine. You’d have to change some details here and there, but you could absolutely write the terminator as a book and pretend it was your idea, for example. And people would never have read anything like it.
I don’t think you’d become rich and famous, because success is as much about time and place as it is ideas and talent. But I’m sure you’d be able to get them published and thus sell well enough to pay your bills on ideas alone.
Not true for something like Tolkien. Those need to be his words for the books to work. But Alien? Psycho? The thing? The day the Earth stood still? Forbidden planet? Arrival? You could sell those on ideas alone.
idk; when you talk to writers they complain about ideas being cheap and written works hard. I think for many concepts, there were poorly done versions well before something made literary history?
For those that want to know the science of this, just watch one of the Stephen Hawkin’s shows. In short, matter can’t be created nor destroyed, but the moment you go back in time you have added matter to this timeline, thus creating matter out of nothing since the particles that make you up are already in that timeline, even if in another form.
Regarding She-who-must-not-be-named, somebody already kinda tried it, it didn’t work because the fomrer was already in possession of large sums of money by that time (and the challenge was kind of spurious anyway) and then everyone forgot about it.
Think of model collapse when you feed LLM output as input into LLMs.
You’re just going to make a shittier reality.
1D10@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s kinda why I think time travel is impossible, if it is ever invented someone will go back and invent it sooner, then someone will go back again until eventually it ends up being the first thing ever invented by humans.
katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Maybe time travel requires a receiver to send to? This isn’t my idea, but I don’t remember who came up with it. I don’t believe that’s possible either, but that would explain why we haven’t seen any travelers yet and still keep time travel a theoretical possibility. You can never travel further back in time than to the invention of the first time machine.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Plot twist: The first time machine HAS been invented, but the creator thought it was a failure because there’s was no previous machine to transmit to.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Primer
Darohan@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
There was a theoretical one I saw ages ago that was a giant cylinder rotating in space at close to the speed of light that had this limitation. I remember exactly zero details beyond physically what it was in the phrase “time cone”.
Seems like it’s probably the Tipler Cylinder