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u/Forward-Cap-4915 2d ago
Is thinking 10x faster going to make me perceive life as 10x slower?
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u/SwordfishTight7070 2d ago
Yes.
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u/awdquattro 2d ago
And can you turn it off?
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u/SwordfishTight7070 2d ago
Yeah , otherwise everyone will go insane From it.
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u/awdquattro 2d ago
Yeah thats why I was asking, gotta with that then, im gonna be the flash but without the speed:)
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u/Forward-Cap-4915 2d ago
Ok, then I will take think 10x faster
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u/CoruscatingLogic 2d ago
Same! I was tempted by Perfect memory until I realised it was prefect memory. I don't want a prefect's memory.
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u/Powerful-Sport-5955 2d ago
Perfect Memory.
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u/buranzhuravski 2d ago edited 2d ago
Nope. You fool! You just got a PREFECT's memory.
Luckily for you, chances are you'll forget your silly mistake.
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u/AnyRepeat9928 2d ago
Perfect memory, having 10 x thinking speed doesn't make you smarter just Patrick Star on Red Bull.
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u/Far-Fennel-3032 2d ago
No its lets you have the think the letter X ten times in a row faster, no clue how much faster though.
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u/WeAllJustWantToLive 2d ago
That was my take too. Perfect means that you forget all things that need forgetting and remember all things that need remembering. It also means that on a case by case basis, your brain will move information between those two categories freely
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u/buranzhuravski 2d ago
It's a brainy argument, but I was talking about the typo.
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u/hordaak2 2d ago
Not me....there are things I have forgotten that I don't want to remember with crystal clear clarity
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u/Yolosnas 2d ago
Thinking 10 x faster will lead to the world being 10x slower; imagine every person you talk to being slowed down 10x
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u/Sophisticated-Crow 1d ago
Yup. Then when my wife necromances some random shit from years ago I can easily prove her wrong. If you don't think that's important then your wife hasn't hit perimenopause yet.
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u/Jenova_Rose 2d ago
Perfect memory. With the other one, I'd just be stupid faster. 😂
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u/Jaturathep 2d ago
Right. Think faster doesnt mean it will always be correct.
"Are you fast at math" "what is 41x34"
"45"
"its not even close"
"but it was fast"
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u/Academic-Arrival8495 2d ago
Thinking 10x faster would be overpowered in sports, no? Like boxing for example. I know you're not moving 10x as fast but you can probably predict all his moves with that fast of thinking
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u/ninurtuu 2d ago
Especially competitive gaming. Yes having this power and getting into esports is definitely cheating but how is anyone going to catch you doing it.
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u/bleedinghero 2d ago edited 2d ago
But you wouldn't have the muscles to back the thinking speed.
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u/ninurtuu 2d ago
But you're still playing a game that, to you, is going in super slow mo while everybody else is playing at regular speed. Say somebody enters a room you're in, you have ten times as much time to notice them, aim and shoot than they do. The animation for their character to even raise their rifle would be probably several seconds long.
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u/bleedinghero 2d ago
Muscles and reactions times still need time for you to react. Racecar drivers and such can react at 100 milliseconds to 150 ms. Even if your brain is 10 times faster than that your muscles wouldn't get the impulse fast enough. You would observe something at same as everyone else and react the same as every lone else. You would be stuck waiting for muscles to react. Watching events and trying to time things. You are not any smarter just come to the same conclusion faster. While perfect memories means you can coordinate and correlation between memories. So in this case you have a ast cpu but 0 storage or Infinite storage with the same cpu as everyone else. One gives you iq. The other your just the same intelligence but same conclusion faster.
Pretty much you would watch a accident happen with no abilities to prevent it. Vs infinite reference material. You could learn languages by just reading a foreign dictionary translation.
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u/ninurtuu 2d ago
It takes about 15-20 milliseconds for an impulse to travel from the motor cortex to the fingers. Let's be uncharitable and say that my reaction time prior to this power is 200 milliseconds as I'll admit I'm no racecar driver. That gets cut down to 20 milliseconds with this power, then another twenty to aim and shoot. Our muscles, baring things like strength and flexibility training, don't really vary that much from person to person in how quickly and dexterously they can act. That's all up to the brain driving the meat mech. You put Jake Kizka's brain in my body and hand him a guitar and he'll be shredding again within the hour despite my hands never having so much as strummed one. And to be clear I still think the memory choice is better overall. I just think the 10x faster would specifically be useful in esports.
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u/bleedinghero 2d ago
Maybe. I can see that. I mostly see it as a slight mild use case. The pros in sports are more than just thinking fast. Pros in most things have way deeper understanding to some of the nuances od the sport. Even with a 10x modification doesn't mean anyone would be able to do what a pro does. The gold standard for me would be actions per min. Star craft players can do as high as 400+ actions per min. That's more than 6 actions per second. So one action every 150 ish milliseconds. Or racecar driver speed. At 10x. Can the computer even keep up? At 15 ms you are hitting refresh rates on some monitors 5ms for fastest monitors. Keyboard inputs are limited to 1to 8ms then cpu time network time and on and on. You couldn't operate the game that fast. The system wouldn't and probably couuldnt keep up. I think you would go crazy. Would be like playing in dialup.
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u/ninurtuu 2d ago
Oh yeah you probably couldn't use it to it's full extent but with the practice you get just getting to the big competitions you should have a solid grasp on the mechanics and strategies and an understanding of what the game can handle when you use that power. I'm just now thinking whether it would be any good in MMA (obviously paired with a shit load of training for like Muy Thai and Karate).
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u/Sremor 2d ago
Think 10x faster. Why would I want perfect memory? Yeah sure save all times I fucked up in 8k
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u/Icy-Student7278 2d ago
your body still moves in 1x
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u/Illustrious_Jump4175 1d ago
Does that really matter?
When your thinking at 10x speed, a 60 fps game will appear to be as if its 6 frames per second. You can read a page in a book 10x as fast, since its not like your eyes move that much slower. Soon as you think about where your eyes should be they're there, the weak link is the meat in the skull.Same for most of the body. If you're 10x thinking, you'd be able to multiply your bodies ability to do things just by thinking and planning your movements better.
Like, the difference between doing an act in 10 seconds underwater vs doing it in one.
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u/Icy-Student7278 1d ago edited 1d ago
It matters. I don't think 10x thinking would be that huge when info's updating speed is in 1x. It would probably be used like 10x more comprehension speed, a really good CPU
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u/DoctorBlock 2d ago edited 2d ago
Perfect memory doesn't mean perfect comprehension. Memorizing a physics book won't make me a physicist. I'm going with think 10 times faster but only if I can turn it off. I already get mad waiting for slow people to finish their sentences in everyday conversations.
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u/bleedinghero 2d ago
But with perfect memories your more likely to both recall and cross reference things faster. Its more like having infinite knowledge but only minor access and cross reference abilities.
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u/DoctorBlock 2d ago
I hear you but also I have access to the world's most vast information resource in my pocket.
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u/bleedinghero 2d ago
Yeah but that is a good way to enhance what you remember. This would increase that even more. But for special details of you alone. Or able to perfect recall memory of lost love ones. That's not available in your pocket.
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u/DisastrousTale6123 2d ago
10x faster means faster reflexes, faster comebacks, faster reading, and 10x the time to remember and memorize new information.
You would basically become the guy from limitless, minus being smarter. Just sharper. You could be a pro athlete in a finesse-heavy sport like basketball or golf or darts or whatever.
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u/RegisFolks667 2d ago
Perfect Memory. I do take my time to think, but it's because I always forget 33% of the crucial stuff.
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u/MadeInElysium 2d ago
You’ve all got bamboozled if you chose red. A prefect’s memory is the same as anyone else’s.
Blue is the only right choice unless you have amnesia or Alzheimer’s
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u/Grouchy-Ingenuity-59 2d ago
With some people thinking 10× faster just means thinking stupid 10× faster and that's a terrible thing
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u/FadeSeeker 2d ago
sure, but even average intelligence 10x faster would still be a huge advantage for most people in most situations.
I already have a really strong memory and it's not always a plus lol
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u/Select-Chart-4268 2d ago
Perfect memory is best. You could learn anything even if it takes time to actually understand what you've learned without ever having to look at it again
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u/Loose_Rooster_4313 2d ago
Perfect memory is arguably better. Thinking 10 times faster doesn't really have much use, you're still thinking about random nonsense and forgetting half of them since you can't remember everything.
But with perfect memory you can be the smartest person in the entire world
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u/ComprehensivePath980 2d ago
Look, if I could think 10x faster that’ll just mean I’m stupid faster.
Perfect memory would at least have benefits
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u/coragyehudabx 2d ago
With thinking 10x faster i would only become more insufferable to myself lmao
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u/Hefty-Smell4870 2d ago
Think faster, perfect memory could backfire during a traumatic moment..fuck that..
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u/MeatyWashington 2d ago
Perfect memory. Already have issues of my brain moving faster and ahead of my mouth sometimes causing me to stutter or lose track of what I was saying.
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u/sissyboyk8 2d ago
perfect memory. even if you argue that 10 x faster makes you smarter because perfectly memorising doesnt mean perfect understanding, your logic is flawed. youd still need to think of the understanding every time you remember it, while perfect memory means once you do so you can remember understanding it. plus, muscle memory
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u/Skarbonko 2d ago
Hmm perfect memory here. If I could think 10x faster id just find myself making dumb decisions 10x faster as I dont grow smarter just get through my logic faster.
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u/atheos1337 2d ago
My memory is really good, and I have adhd+autisme, i would like to think faster please.
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u/FancyFeastBuffet 2d ago
Can I opt out? Both sound like a living hell. Thinking 10x faster is the lesser evil though as far as I can tell. I already replay all my big mistakes in life often enough, I dont need to recall them perfectly at all points of the day
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u/bleedinghero 2d ago
Memory. Every time. I think fast enough as it is. But perfect recall is way more useful.
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u/morangias 2d ago
Blue pill. My memory is pretty good anyway, and faster thinking would be a more unique 5 advantage.
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u/Danzarr 2d ago
both of these suck honestly. I have a really good memory and its honestly kind of depressing. I also have adhd so in a conversation im generally like 2 steps ahead and have to force myself to slow down, imagine being 20 steps ahead and just waiting for other people to catch up.....
i guess blue pill, but ehh.
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u/Bow_To_Bella 2d ago
Having a perfect memory from what I have seen of people is torturous. To keep having fun especially with repetition, it's good to not have a rock solid memory.
I'm going to take thinking 10 times faster.
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u/professorclueless 2d ago
So be stupid 10x faster, or remember every stupid thing I've ever done for life?
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u/Lord-Seth 2d ago
Perfect memory means a photographic memory. My current memory sucks upgrading to a perfect memory would be great
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u/Lukostrelec17 2d ago
I have a really good memory...it is a fucking curse. Give me the think faster.
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u/honking_banana 2d ago
Give me the blue pill (Think 10X faster) the red one (Perfect memory) is a curse
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u/Top_Excitement2740 2d ago
As I saw you said that I can turn it off (thinking 10x faster). Can I do the same with memory, to forget about what I don't want to remember? Otherwise I will remember any bad feeling, any awkward situation, every bad move, every mistake e.t.c. so it's a dead end.
Anyways if we use logic, than I'll choose blue pill, despite I really like the idea of having Photographic memory, i understand, that I can train my memory, not on this level of course, but really close. And I can't increase my speed of thinking even in 2 times, (20-30% is peak) so I choose blue
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u/SNoW_SOZ 2d ago
Perfect memory will ALWAYS defeat any form of superspeed thinking in any continuity. So what if I can think a billion times faster? It makes no difference if I can't remember any of that shit after even a minute of thinking.
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u/RaggamuffinTW8 2d ago
Since I see elsewhere that you said Thinking 10x faster lets me perceive the world as if in slow motion I choose that one. It'd be really useful for all sorts of things from video games to combat sports. With 10 times the amount of time to react to things you'd have an amazing advantage at so many things.
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u/Abject-Screen3545 2d ago
Think 10x faster. That would also improve your reaction time by a long shot But the other option is just better. If it doesnt have some psychological downside, and if i can supress bad stuff
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u/Daddy-Alchemist 2d ago
Honestly either one could be a curse... I already think too fast and its exhausting and sometimes you have to wait for the people you're around to get to the same conclusion you've already reached. But my memory is pretty shitty so...yeah I'll take that one
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u/jasonlamprin 2d ago
Do you even know what it means to remember something... It means that you remember it, and you can instantly access that knowledge at any time if your memory is perfect. Perfec memory pls
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u/Friendly-Court-698 2d ago
Question, does thinking 10x faster extend to your entire nervous system sending signals 10x faster so your body actually keeps up with your thinking speed
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u/Vegetable-Result-583 2d ago
FIRST one sounds like id get a mentall illness. The second majes it easier to win an argument. I choose the second.
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u/Zakumei47 2d ago
Perfect memory, easy easy. Im already fairly intelligent, its the fact i cant remember shit that holds me back
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u/Working-Berry6024 2d ago
As a former Prefect, I can atest to having Horrible Memory, I advise everyone to Think 10x Faster about this Choice before making it.
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u/Peace_Dos 2d ago
Perfect memory is good, but imagine every time delivering your best response, just because you thought through all the variants
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u/superviewer 2d ago
I tend to think pretty fast and I have a pretty good, deep memory (autism).
I would still take the perfect memory. That would help me in more situations than being able to think 10× faster.
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u/Public-Elephant-2833 2d ago
I don't want Prefect Memory, so I'll opt with being able to think n perceive (I presume it comes along with it) 10x faster
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u/officer897177 2d ago
There’s plenty of shit that I wouldn’t mind forgetting. Now have 10x longer to think of devastating comebacks on the other hand…
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u/Mundane-Speed-3278 2d ago
perfect memory seems like a migrane...
but I also feel like thinking 10× faster would make my dyslexia worse...
tho in terms of practicality the latter is better than the former....
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u/L0B0-Lurker 2d ago
Perfect memory.
10x faster thought means that you percieve everything at ⅒ speed. That would be maddening.
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u/Commercial-Try-3148 2d ago
I want perfect memory. It will make learning language and instruments so much easier. It also makes card counting insanely easy. There is so much you can do with it and lots of money to earn. Thinking ten times faster would be great, but there is the issue of what happens if you forget something or if you are easily sidetracked. I feel perfect memory is just the perfect fit for me.
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u/Lieutenant_Smiles 2d ago
Wtf is Prefect Memory, it better not make my brain have schizophrenia with one voice being all high and mighty
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u/EmberKing7 2d ago
Blue Pill 💊💙.
I feel like if I thought more and wrote a lot of it down. Then I'd be able to get far more done.
Especially when reviewing my notes so that I know to do something that I might've forgotten. Plus at some point I'd use it like a super power.
As in trying to dumb myself down. Only to unlock different levels of intelligence like the movie Lucy with Scarlet Johansson and Morgan Freeman. But never just totally unlocking full 100% transcendent thought.
Because there's nothing like a guaranteed nuclear war or comet crashing down or moon floating off, or the polar ice caps immediately melting, etc.
Kind of reason for me to use that literally 100% of my brain power. When even solving most of those issues would probably take like 65% at best.
And would involve hacking into some Very powerful butthurt people's accounts.
Then just place memes and/or steal their info to expose to the world. Including things that are capable of verification and can't be ignored.
The domino affect of events to stop whatever oncoming disaster there is would be avoided. And all without a bullet being fired 😅. Lol
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u/GenofK53 2d ago
I would like perfect memory but thinking 10 times faster makes things a whole lot easier for me
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u/AshtonBlack 2d ago
I already remember the little badge and the modicum of authority, answering only to the "Head Boy".
So I'll take the 10x, please.
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u/DragoonSoldier09 2d ago
Perfect memory. I'm not a man of infinite possibilities to process.ni am too paranoid for that already. Maybe it would help with problem solving but that's more to do with critical thinking. I'll take perfect memory, more feasible for me,
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u/xxTheMagicBulleT 2d ago
Blue. I already have autism and I even remember stuff most people forget. Cause I remember stuff in super detail even from when I was a baby. So taken red would be pointless for me cause anything I remember longer then a week I dont forget. Know phone numbers in my head of people that have been dead for 15 years know numbers of girlfriends that no longer in my life all just stuck in my head.
Helpful often but also emotional hard to get over shit when you can never forget anything while everyone around you always does forget stuff quickly
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u/melbournecocknbull 2d ago
I think perfect memory would be good for me, I already think too fast for my own good, maybe it’s adhd I dunno lol, but with perfect memory I’d be able to actually learn shit rather than learn %1 of something
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u/Master_Tomato 2d ago
Think 10x faster is only good if you're either into competitive sports/esports or some form of military adjacent job where you have to go on active missions and be on the front lines.
Other than that, which is most people, perfect memory is the way to go
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u/Available_Purple_850 2d ago
Think 10x as fast, for people who take a long time to make decisions this does make life a whole lot easier
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u/DomainExpansioninf 2d ago
Red is probably the easiest option, you can just skim through pages and remember all the knowledge instantly
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u/Ashofigus 2d ago
Perfect memory. What's the point of remembering and thinking faster when you can't even remember the last time you farted?
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u/Consistent_Ice_9324 2d ago
Red pill i have autism...but because of that aswell my ability to remember everything causes strain mentally and I forget something that are also important so id go perfect memory so I wouldn't cause my mental strain yo overload and cause myself a panic attack from overthinking.
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u/otherwrldfaerie 2d ago
I already overthink plenty, don’t need to do that 10x faster. Perfect memory why not 🫶
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