How would you become the best version of yourself?

[Rebis]

If you had unlimited financial expenditure how would you use that to become the best person you could be?

For example:
Diet
Lifestyle
Education
Geographical Area

 

[peoplesuck]

I think people who become their best selves first become their worst selves and decide to fix their shit. So basically I need to stop being so safe and boring and let myself fail to the point that i have enough will power to not only be average but above. maybe. or do dmt until you become one with the world. I think modern life has robbed us of the necessary fight to survive so we just exist.

 

[Rebis]

I think people who become their best selves first become their worst selves and decide to fix their shit. So basically I need to stop being so safe and boring and let myself fail to the point that i have enough will power to not only be average but above. maybe. or do dmt until you become one with the world. I think modern life has robbed us of the necessary fight to survive so we just exist.

Yeah I agree with you on change, if you go through extreme experiences you're likely to change your ways. I spent £600 on a night out once which definitely taught me a lesson with money (still have more to learn though).

 

[Tenacity]

If you had unlimited financial expenditure how would you use that to become the best person you could be?

Unlimited? How... in what universe? Lol

I'm sure I would do way more than the below, but this is off the top of my head, kind of more in relation to myself and less about world impact; The latter I'd like to think harder on.

Diet
Wouldn't really change what I eat, but I'd have all logistics automated via robots.
I'm sure there is a better answer for this.

Lifestyle
I'd be much more nomadic.
Would expand Hyperloop One globally and use it.
Would launch a robotics-integrated apparel brand to reduce the need for laundry.
Would build human wings and a traffic control system surrounding that (evolution of drone / air traffic control)
Basically fund transhumanism, multiplanetary civilization, and make or expand upon everything useful, with calculated risk tho because the word "unlimited" scares me.
Cure everything, eliminate unintended suffering.
Inevitably new and crazy problems would exist amidst all this - Would likely convene with the best philosophical minds to start a new school of philosophy to deal with the new nuances and ethics in existential meaning.

Education
Enable Matrix-type instant mastery for the world.

Geographical Area
Anywhere.
The Moon.
Mars.

 

[Rebis]

If you had unlimited financial expenditure how would you use that to become the best person you could be?

Unlimited? How... in what universe? Lol

I'm sure I would do way more than the below, but this is off the top of my head, kind of more in relation to myself and less about world impact; The latter I'd like to think harder on.

Diet
Wouldn't really change what I eat, but I'd have all logistics automated via robots.
I'm sure there is a better answer for this.

Lifestyle
I'd be much more nomadic.
Would expand Hyperloop One globally and use it.
Would launch a robotics-integrated apparel brand to reduce the need for laundry.
Would build human wings and a traffic control system surrounding that (evolution of drone / air traffic control)
Basically fund transhumanism, multiplanetary civilization, and make or expand upon everything useful, with calculated risk tho because the word "unlimited" scares me.
Cure everything, eliminate unintended suffering.
Inevitably new and crazy problems would exist amidst all this - Would likely convene with the best philosophical minds to start a new school of philosophy to deal with the new nuances and ethics in existential meaning.

Education
Enable Matrix-type instant mastery for the world.

Geographical Area
Anywhere.
The Moon.
Mars.

I was thinking more so things that would enhance your life rather than civilization itself. So let's say you wanted to be a nuclear physicist, you could teach yourself by renown scientific leaders. You got a house far away from a noise bustling city, while having an apt in the city. You could eat your exact diet without limitation, you could go on holidays as you please. You're not to change infrastructure for others, just yourself.

 

[Polaris]

In terms of how I think I should be I think I'm only the best version of myself when I can apply my skills and knowledge to improve living conditions for other living beings. I have an interest in ecology. When I understand systems, I have an urge to tweak them. I'm kinda never finished with that task...

What is stopping me? Not money (or lack of thereof). It's just me. Ugh. I could do more volunteering, I could apply myself more to the task of networking - basically, if I worked harder and more focused, I would be there, doing it right now.

In terms of intrinsic best version. Constantly working on it...however, being a perfectionist and self-flagellating retard, it's rather comical because I'll never be satisfied with where I'm at. I have periods of self-contempt and project that outwards in not-so healthy ways.

 

[Rebis]

In terms of how I think I should be I think I'm only the best version of myself when I can apply my skills and knowledge to improve living conditions for other living beings. I have an interest in ecology. When I understand systems, I have an urge to tweak them. I'm kinda never finished with that task...

What is stopping me? Not money (or lack of thereof). It's just me. Ugh. I could do more volunteering, I could apply myself more to the task of networking - basically, if I worked harder and more focused, I would be there, doing it right now.

In terms of intrinsic best version. Constantly working on it...however, being a perfectionist and self-flagellating retard, it's rather comical because I'll never be satisfied with where I'm at. I have periods of self-contempt and project that outwards in not-so healthy ways.

Well, how would you be able to employ systems that enable you to be the best person you are? Could you employ systems to educate yourself to a standard where you can have practical influence in a market? Could you use financial expenditure to give yourself more time, e.g. a chef to cook nutritious, wholesome food? A personal gym to save time travelling to and from the gym, paying prostitutes for a regular dose of oxytocin, drugs that promotes neurogenesis and optimal cognitive performance. Books to purchase online which are hard to find torrents for, laptop for remote usage, an expensive PC for 3D rendering. The list goes on and on.

 

[Cognisant]

If you had unlimited financial expenditure
Open a general store on the moon.

how would you use that to become the best person you could be?

The Grand Plan for Space Walmart/Mitre10/Target/whatever
The cheapest way to get cargo into orbit is a mass driver, you have a maglev “train” on a track in a vacuum tube (i.e. like the Hyperloop) and as it travels down this very long track/tube it accelerates to multiple times orbital velocity (~8km/s) say about 24km/s. Towards the end of the track/tube it slopes upwards and the end of the tube/track is ideally at the top of a mountain or something, it’s not essential but the higher the better.

The first “carriage” is going to be vaporized upon contact with the atmosphere, as will the next dozen or so after it, their sequential sacrifices creating a tunnel through the atmosphere by sheer brute force. Once this vacuum tunnel has been established as long as there’s little-to-no gap between the carriages the air can’t get in front of the train, so to speak, greatly reducing drag. Also I don’t know enough about aerodynamics to prove it but I suspect air interacting with the hypersonic “train” will create an extremely energetic boundary layer reducing skin friction drag to a negligible amount.

So now we effectively have a Hyperloop to space but you don’t want the train to end because when it does the vacuum tunnel collapses and you’ll have to sacrifice dozens of carriages all over again. To solve this we continually add carriages to the train as it leaves the station by having multiple stations and multiple tracks that all converge together to form the final track. The timing of these carriages and their rate of acceleration has to be extremely precise so that they all converge seamlessly, a single mistake could destroy the entire system, but if it works the sheer quantity of cargo being moved would make any other method utterly irrelevant.

Well you might still need rockets for people because they're so fragile.

Anyway what to do with all this cargo? No single mission requires a container ship’s worth of cargo per day but by using rockets and robots in the carriages you could bundle them up in orbit and fly them out to the L1 Lagrange point then use the resources and robots to build a HarbourFreight/Costco/Bunnings/whatever on the moon. A massive facility (mostly underground) growing ever larger and filled with ever more goods relevant to building and supplying ships, stations, moon bases, solar-voltaic power stations, colonies on Mars, anything and everything humanity will need to expand out into the solar system.

Indeed rather than just storing and selling stuff you could also use that stuff to establish your own manufacturing facilities, build ships stations and satellites to your client’s specifications. Start mining and smelting materials from the moon itself for even higher profit margins, establish hydroponics facilities for growing fresh food, perhaps even raising animals. Given the means to do so humanity will expand into the solar system and if yours is the frontier general store that makes doing so convenient the profits to be made are endless.

 

[Rebis]

If you had unlimited financial expenditure
Open a general store on the moon.

how would you use that to become the best person you could be?

The Grand Plan for Space Walmart/Mitre10/Target/whatever
The cheapest way to get cargo into orbit is a mass driver, you have a maglev “train” on a track in a vacuum tube (i.e. like the Hyperloop) and as it travels down this very long track/tube it accelerates to multiple times orbital velocity (~8km/s) say about 24km/s. Towards the end of the track/tube it slopes upwards and the end of the tube/track is ideally at the top of a mountain or something, it’s not essential but the higher the better.

The first “carriage” is going to be vaporized upon contact with the atmosphere, as will the next dozen or so after it, their sequential sacrifices creating a tunnel through the atmosphere by sheer brute force. Once this vacuum tunnel has been established as long as there’s little-to-no gap between the carriages the air can’t get in front of the train, so to speak, greatly reducing drag. Also I don’t know enough about aerodynamics to prove it but I suspect air interacting with the hypersonic “train” will create an extremely energetic boundary layer reducing skin friction drag to a negligible amount.

So now we effectively have a Hyperloop to space but you don’t want the train to end because when it does the vacuum tunnel collapses and you’ll have to sacrifice dozens of carriages all over again. To solve this we continually add carriages to the train as it leaves the station by having multiple stations and multiple tracks that all converge together to form the final track. The timing of these carriages and their rate of acceleration has to be extremely precise so that they all converge seamlessly, a single mistake could destroy the entire system, but if it works the sheer quantity of cargo being moved would make any other method utterly irrelevant.

Well you might still need rockets for people because they're so fragile.

Anyway what to do with all this cargo? No single mission requires a container ship’s worth of cargo per day but by using rockets and robots in the carriages you could bundle them up in orbit and fly them out to the L1 Lagrange point then use the resources and robots to build a HarbourFreight/Costco/Bunnings/whatever on the moon. A massive facility (mostly underground) growing ever larger and filled with ever more goods relevant to building and supplying ships, stations, moon bases, solar-voltaic power stations, colonies on Mars, anything and everything humanity will need to expand out into the solar system.

Indeed rather than just storing and selling stuff you could also use that stuff to establish your own manufacturing facilities, build ships stations and satellites to your client’s specifications. Start mining and smelting materials from the moon itself for even higher profit margins, establish hydroponics facilities for growing fresh food, perhaps even raising animals. Given the means to do so humanity will expand into the solar system and if yours is the frontier general store that makes doing so convenient the profits to be made are endless.

Oh boy, here we go. I see this is a passion project.

By orbital velocity do you mean escape velocity? I'm unsure about the train mechanism, You could use EM Railguns to transport unrefined materials to and from the moon but sensitive goods would be hard to transport. I think a better method would be transporting raw materials to be converted into the product among arrival, we're seeing this with ideas for space colonies like the venus project and Mars mission where everything will be assembled at the point of contact.

Space walmart is very far into the future we aren't even mining asteroids for resources like tritium, but you have no financial limitations it seems.

 

[onesteptwostep]

I'm not sure what the best version of myself would be, but I do have several interests which I would pursue if money isn't a problem. Not in any particular order, but first, have a general understanding of the philosophy of religion in the contemporary world. This I would pursue by enrolling into Notre Dame Uni. Second, I want to explore public policy which would help stem brain drain and reinvigorate rural areas in my country, this I think Georgetown Uni would have the education suited for my needs. Lastly, I would like to have to have technical understanding of architecture, which was basically my first 'love', just to dabble in housing and to learn a bit about the history of urban planning.

 

[Cognisant]

Oh boy, here we go. I see this is a passion project.

I have been dying to use that gif.

By orbital velocity do you mean escape velocity?

I mean a speed relative to what spacecraft orbit at, firing something directly into orbit just isn't how that works, but as long as you can get something high enough it'll pick up speed on the way down and then it only takes a relatively gentle nudge to put it into orbit.

You could use EM Railguns to transport unrefined materials to and from the moon but sensitive goods would be hard to transport. I think a better method would be transporting raw materials to be converted into the product among arrival, we're seeing this with ideas for space colonies like the venus project and Mars mission where everything will be assembled at the point of contact.

Yup that's pretty much it, well unless you have the budget and the political connections to make the track much longer.

Space walmart is very far into the future we aren't even mining asteroids for resources like tritium, but you have no financial limitations it seems.

Bit of a chicken and the egg problem, without infrastructure in space you don't have the infrastructure to make the infrastructure you need to make the infrastructure. Sure you could start small but mining and refining and smelting and machining and assembly are processes that take a long time to scale up when you're starting from a few tons of equipment.

 

[Rebis]

Oh boy, here we go. I see this is a passion project.

I have been dying to use that gif.

By orbital velocity do you mean escape velocity?

I mean a speed relative to what spacecraft orbit at, firing something directly into orbit just isn't how that works, but as long as you can get something high enough it'll pick up speed on the way down and then it only takes a relatively gentle nudge to put it into orbit.

Yes this is escape velocity, escape velocity is the velocity needed to escape the gravitational pull of earth. After that you have the frictionless vaccum of space and orbital velocity from planets to propel yourself into deep space at increasing speeds.

Space walmart is very far into the future we aren't even mining asteroids for resources like tritium, but you have no financial limitations it seems.

Bit of a chicken and the egg problem, without infrastructure in space you don't have the infrastructure to make the infrastructure you need to make the infrastructure. Sure you could start small but mining and refining and smelting and machining and assembly are processes that take a long time to scale up when you're starting from a few tons of equipment.
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It's not a chicken and the egg problem if the modules are self-assembled, robots could be considered "infrastructure" but it isn't the complex infrastructure we think of today such as a road network. We have the ISS for infrastructure, the nodes set by the curiousity rover at Gale Crater and LSP on the moon. I think the best solution is self-assembling infrastructure at the site point itself, so sending essential infrastructure with robotic oversight is the best bet, mainly because we can only deploy resource caches at specific times when two planets align such that they are in close proximity to each other.

 

[Tenacity]

enhance your life rather than civilization itself

You're not to change infrastructure for others, just yourself.

I'm not sure what the best version of myself would be

This.

 

[Rebis]

enhance your life rather than civilization itself

You're not to change infrastructure for others, just yourself.

I'm not sure what the best version of myself would be

This.

So what would you do to improve your lifestyle, granted it's not perfect? What systems would you employ to be the best version of yourself if you had a disposable income?

You can change infrastructure, i.e. a personal transportation network that goes from A-B to save you time, so you have more time to focus on personal development, but you don't have unlimited expenditure to solve all the worlds problems.