Being internally happy and content.
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Picking lotto numbers.
Life. Nobody would ever figure it out. They might think/say "he's got the best life", but who would think "he's the best at life".
I already am the best at something, but if I tell you, somebody would know...
Making money
Lying
This is the perfect answer. Self-reinforcing loop
Future’s market.
Masturbating.
Best masturbator
Paying off people's mortgages in full.
Can it be murder? I'd fix the world with violence if I could get away with it.
You've seen Death Note right?
If anything "Using violence to fix the world" would be the better thing to be good at since it protects you from the Monkey Paw to a certain extent. Exceptions:
- a "fixed" world being one devoid of humans
- a "fixed" world panning out in the opposite way you imagined (everyone is equally miserable instead of happy for example)
you could kill trump and some other corrupt politicians and world leaders and world would be a better place
Monkey Paw: Trump and other corrupt politicians being high up the authority chain made sure more evil politicians didn't get authority.
So you kill those as well. Now trust in democracy is crumbling because for some reason a lot of politicians keep mysteriously dying. "Good" politicians enact laws to protect their lives but those laws are bad as well so now you also have to off the good politicians. I hope you see where this hypothetical is going. The world is not so simple that a few well placed assassinations would fix everything, if that were the case it'd have been done before.
Everyone being equally miserable could be preferable to some people being happy, since it gives everybody equal reasons to work towards improving the situation... Except, of course, the monkey paw would ensure that wouldn't pan out
Potatoes. I would be the best at potatoes.
Innovating new outside-the-box stuff, procedures, code, whatever. A robust public domain would happily be my legacy.
No small amount of art too.
making money. a win win really.
Cracking DRM. Win-win.
Judging from some of the prolific ones out there, cracking DRM requires you to also be absolutely batshit insane.
That type of hacking is mind-blowingly complicated. Literally. It's impossible to understand it all without being batshit insane.
Definitely not wrong, when I read about it virtualizing the whole deal... I've worked in relatively adjacent fields before and I couldn't even give you a satisfactory high-level explanation of how it works.
I should give cracking a go.
Sleeping.
Embezzling money
Generating world peace.
The world would become a better place, and no one would be able to trace it back to me. I get to live in a warless world and still have my privacy.
A lot of people would argue Jesus did that historically. Or maybe Buddha. Obviously they were famous though.
Jesus made sure EVERYONE knew
Jesus explained a special equilateral triangle shape and its internal geometries, mainly group theory. It has an identity where if you imagine rotating it by 120 degrees, there's no change in position afterwards. He said there were 3 important things you should know and they were all equal and in a way identical; they perfectly related to each other.
Ah yes... My favorite gospel
It's the Bible codes, which you might not believe in or care about. To have an idea like that, which people still believed in and would easily spread across the world, he needed to understand about mathematical geometries. To do this, he spent most of his life studying. It was a form of logic he used to say things that were hard to disagree with.
In spirit, maybe. :-)
Picking lottery numbers
Nobody's claimed stock investing yet, I'll take that one.
Theft.
Vigilante murder.
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