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I'd take the $10 mil. Childhood seems like it would be a lot less fun if I had to go through it again but now with the jaded mind of a middle aged man.

I can for sure find a way to have fun with ten million dollars though 😉

Do I go back in time to when I was six (red pill then) or am I 6 in 2024 (blue pill then)?

If I get back to 2005 I can easily get more than 10 millions by the time it's 2024 again. Plus all the other perks of restarting your life

Used to want the red pill but I have a kid now. Resetting would almost assuredly cause me to end up with a different kid.

I’m team blue.

I think between being a cute kid and BEGGING my dad who likes to gamble to invest EVERYTHING on Yahoo! From 1994 until the pets.com Superbowl commercial ad aired, and then just hardlined him into selling, he's probably be able to cut me 10 mil.

Let alone that Id be saying "Microsoft! Coca Cola! Amazon! Apple! Oracle! Pfizer! Johnson & Johnson! Berkshire Hathaway! Wal Mart! And in war years, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin! Intel! Amd! Nvidia!" The whole time.

I'd be a fucking billionaire. Straight up. It would t be gambling, it would be a free money glitch.

Timing Bitcoin right?? Doge?? Get outta here. I'd have more money than anyone on earth.

If I could redo the life I was given with all my current knowledge, 10M would be like the average size of a charity donation or a gift that I would be giving.

There's a fuck ton that I would know is coming and have absolutely no way of stopping. That is fucking hell.

Money. I ain't doing this shit again.

Blue, would be hard to merry my x again, so I still have my son.

There's nearly 0% odds I end up with the same wife and kids twice and I hit the jackpot the first time around. Give me the money.

Even keeping time travel mechanics and ethics on the side, restarting my life at age 6 probably won’t be very helpful until I become something like 15 so I could actually do something with the knowledge, otherwise I’d probably be called a crazy kid, and couple that with the chances of me somehow fucking up everything and I would much rather have the blue pill.

Red, easily.

Yeah, some childhood stuff would suck but you could probably skip a good few grades. As you already (hopefully) know how to socialize by now, a lot of the childhood friend stuff seems pretty optional.

Dating would be really tricky through the early teenage years as I don't know how I'd feel about girls my own physical age at that point.

Because I'm relatively older and would have insane future knowledge, I could absolutely rock in stocks and have enough money to actually effect change. (Eg, singelhandedly fund a massive Democrat turnout machine in the rustbelt for 2016.)

The hard part would be somehow connecting with my current group of friends whom I love to death and wouldn't want to lose. They are the only thing that makes the blue pill tempting.

While I could easily get more than $10mil with my current knowledge (assuming I go back in time to 6yrs old), I would not have the same wife or child as I do now, and there's no way I'll give them up, so I'll just take the $10mil now .

Red makes more potential money (buy Apple, buy BTC) but that means it would be almost impossible to meet all my friends and I need to make new ones. Ugh I hate talking with people

Blue pill all day. I'd never give up my daughter and we could spend the rest of our lives vacationing.

Red pill. My dumbass thinks I could "fix" the people that fucked up my childhood with the knowledge I have now

One thing to consider, assuming the red one is mental time travel (which is the only way it'd really be at all useful), you're essentially murdering everyone who exists from your subjective present to the jump point to replace with at best very similar clones and possibly no one or completely different people. Then you have to also assume the timeline isn't fixed and you can actually change things, and thus contend with butterfly effect causing divergence making your knowledge less useful. Sure, little changes probably won't impact things on a global scale for a while, but once you start doing big things like investing or preventing terrorist attacks or something that could cause major divergence. Ethically any kind of useful time travel should be limited to "World is already wiped out" scale scenarios where the alternative is worse.

I'd grab both pills and quickly swallow them just to see what would happen. I might end up a 12yo with $5million. I'd be so obnoxious

which is one digests better in my ass?

No brainer. Restart at 6 years old. Time is priceless.

Blue pill, it said you revert to a certain age, but not a certain time, meaning any information you've kept could be useless in an unfamiliar environment.

Also, it never states that time and reality will play out the same exact way, making said knowledge even more useless.

Blue pill. I have an amazing wife and kids and there's no way I'd risk that

Neither. Trick question.

I’d choose the secret third option:

The cyanide pill.

Ten million USD in 2024 is more than enough for me and my family to live out comfortable lives, to be honest. I'd just take that, live off the interest. It will present its own problems, of course, but I'm sure I can figure those out.

Going back in time with any specific goal or intent (like making lots more money than ten million dollars by 2024) is almost certainly going to end up being its own kind of hell in this situation and especially so when there's no guarantee that I'll actually be successful in that pursuit. No guarantee that I'd arrive at the new 2024 with more than ten million dollars, no guarantee I'd be able to "fix" anything without causing worse problems for myself and others, no guarantee that I'd get here alive again, sounds like quite a bit of a risk.

Plus, once I go back to age 6 and start making different decisions, a different future will necessarily emerge. Think about it this way, in order to not change the future (until you're at a point where you can reasonably execute a plan to reach your goals), you'd have to make exactly the same decisions you did when you were 6. Pretty much nobody has that kind of memory/recall, so it would literally come down to sheer luck. And the further along in time things progress, as you make more and more different decisions than you did originally, the more uncertainty it would introduce to the new future. Eventually, you may even find that you basically have no more ability to recall/predict the future than you would have otherwise.

So if you're in it for the money, just take the guaranteed money.

Red pill if it means I go back in time to when I was 6yrs old. Blue pill if not.

Edit: having to live through puberty again would be painful, but there's a fair amount of stuff I could, and likely would, do a lot differently.

I am taking both. Thank you. Nobody said that it is exclusive choice.

Here's my take, if went back to when I was 6, I probably wouldn't have the same friends I have now, like genuinely amazing friends. I'd rather not live though middle school and highschool again.

So I'll take the 10 million dollar blue pill.

Is cyanide an option?

Red

6 years of age would put me in 1978.

There is a lot I could do from that point onward, that would make $10M look like spare change. Like investing in Apple, or working with Tim Berners-Lee to more effectively launch an Internet that could better resist corporatization and enshittification.