If you had 100 trillion dollars what would you do with?

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
no. it'd be my endeavor that i could afford to launch and i'd pay them handsomely for their efforts. in the end, they are workers woking for money. i'm just offering them jobs and the chance to be apart of tech history.

they could always decline the job offer. and no one would be held hostage as an employee of mine.

well, you are in luck, because the vast majority of the top level or elite physicists, engineers and mathematicians would almost certainly turn you down, as, given their status as elite members of the scientific community, there is very little stopping them from being involved in the games industry if they wanted. Additionally, their skill set may be relevant, but game, and especially console design, requires much more than simply understanding how to code. Mathematicians wont be much help designing an intuitive experience for the gamer compared to even entry level employees in most CS departments at modern game studios.

Scientists who are the top of their field are also not really known for being driven by finances. Most, if not all, earn a very good salary already, and if they were motivated by financial gain, there are many private sector options available to them, which they have foregone in pursuit of their own research goals. There is the further issue that most top level scientists are older, and wont have a lot of personal experience with games.

So, you would be better cherry picking top level design and CS talent from the major hardware designers to work with young engineers who may not be the best in the field, but will have first hand experience with gaming and might have new and revolutionary ideas based on those experiences. Steven Hawking would have little if anything worthwhile to contribute to the design of a game system that a computer engineering graduate student wouldn't find intuitive.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
besides, i think the world will be alright if a couple of braniacs were at my disposal for a half decade or two.

it would be fine.

no, I think the world would be far, far, far better off if those couple of brainiacs literally sat in a room doing nothing else but thinking about anything else that interests them.

Like, the game system you have described is being held back by corporate greed, copyright law and lack of investment, not scientific or technological issues. You would be better hiring the best corporate lawyers than the best scientists.

Originally posted by Robtard
You really like gaming, huh.

hey rob, long time.

i do. i even wrote a 25 page capstone in college on the video games industry that had to be completed before i walked across the stage.

i'm more of a pc gamer though. i quit consoles a couple of years ago for being too limiting and dated. retro games are cool but i'm more into the tech of gaming and the future of it. the cutting edge, innovative stuff. not the trendy or popular stuff though. there has to be substance. just built my own gaming pc. she's a beast. and i'm not done. the gefore gtx 680 (the world's most powerful graphics card) just came out and as soon as they fix the kinks i'm on it.

do you game?

Some Xbox and have gamed on PC in the past. I'm a light/casual gamer.

Originally posted by inimalist
well, you are in luck, because the vast majority of the top level or elite physicists, engineers and mathematicians would almost certainly turn you down, as, given their status as elite members of the scientific community, there is very little stopping them from being involved in the games industry if they wanted. Additionally, their skill set may be relevant, but game, and especially console design, requires much more than simply understanding how to code. Mathematicians wont be much help designing an intuitive experience for the gamer compared to even entry level employees in most CS departments at modern game studios.

Scientists who are the top of their field are also not really known for being driven by finances. Most, if not all, earn a very good salary already, and if they were motivated by financial gain, there are many private sector options available to them, which they have foregone in pursuit of their own research goals. There is the further issue that most top level scientists are older, and wont have a lot of personal experience with games.

So, you would be better cherry picking top level design and CS talent from the major hardware designers to work with young engineers who may not be the best in the field, but will have first hand experience with gaming and might have new and revolutionary ideas based on those experiences. Steven Hawking would have little if anything worthwhile to contribute to the design of a game system that a computer engineering graduate student wouldn't find intuitive.

no, I think the world would be far, far, far better off if those couple of brainiacs literally sat in a room doing nothing else but thinking about anything else that interests them.

Like, the game system you have described is being held back by corporate greed, copyright law and lack of investment, not scientific or technological issues. You would be better hiring the best corporate lawyers than the best scientists.

very good ...

you made it make sense nicely. it's actually an excellent piece of consult. you'd be the type of person i'd hire as a consultant for the initial stages and more than likely be kept on until the end if you prove as valuable as you were initially.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
very good ...

you made it make sense nicely. it's actually an excellent piece of consult. you'd be the type of person i'd hire as a consultant for the initial stages and more than likely be kept on until the end if you prove as valuable as you were initially.

my first piece of advice would be to not hire me and find someone who knows the industry, preferably people who have been involved in at least one platform launch, or people with large connections into the industry who might know the right people to do this.

I've got no interest in designing a video game system and no expertise in the field; a total waste of the dump truck of money it would cost you to hire me for such a position.

Originally posted by inimalist
my first piece of advice would be to not hire me and find someone who knows the industry

Clearly.

First rule of business: Always get money up front if you can, then see if you can do the job.

Originally posted by inimalist
my first piece of advice would be to not hire me and find someone who knows the industry, preferably people who have been involved in at least one platform launch, or people with large connections into the industry who might know the right people to do this.

I've got no interest in designing a video game system and no expertise in the field; a total waste of the dump truck of money it would cost you to hire me for such a position.

that's why i wrote that you'd be the type of person i'd hire. like the consultant type. but obviously it would be someone whom not only has the expertise i'd need, but a passion with my vision, as well.

i make my company

i want us currency

Originally posted by Digi

Well, aside from the fact that you can't obtain Adam's powers, there's already plenty of BA's running around on the planet. But you'd draw a ton of attention to yourself and would be assassinated. No amount of money would stop that from happening. Enjoy your short-lived dystopia.

Originally posted by AsbestosFlaygon
I'd fund a research project tasked in creating the perfect robotic sex slave, aimed in replacing humans in prostitution, effectively eliminating widespread transfer of VDs and HIV.

These robots have human AI and have the same likeness to human flesh and bone. They also have a basic set of senses, and can orgasm and respond to stimulus.

If I just had a hundred trillion dollars lying around, I would do a couple things:

1. I'd pay off any and all debts I or my family had.

2. I'd buy a nice homestead out in the country and grow all of my own organic food.

3. I'd keep enough to sustain a $50,000 a year lifestyle until I was 100 (I'm 20 now so $4,000,000 at least, give or take a couple million for a cushion)

4. I'd buy a huge shipment of KJV Bibles and pass them out to everyone I meet.

5. I'd attempt to pay off a chunk of the US national debt.

6. I'd give the rest to a good, honest charity that will help the needy and spread true Christian values.

You could pay off the US debt many times over with that kind of money

I would take over half of it and split it equally among different charities anonymously. I would give everyone I care about a few million a piece. Then I would continue living the exact same life I live and only buy things I need. I grew up on the poor side and because of that Im very happy with where im at right now. I may buy some things of expense like The first appearance of The Silver age Flash or maybe Amazing Fantasy #15 but that would be a very rare thing for me to do.

1) I would first give to charities
2) I would buy myself a much bigger house and other stuff and live a normal life
3)I would also share my money with my close friends an family

Lol that's more than the entire budget of every country on earth combined. And such it's such a rediculous quest I'll give a rediculous answer....I'd ask Kate Beckinsale to name her price 🤘

Originally posted by Archaeopteryx
Lol that's more than the entire budget of every country on earth combined. And such it's such a rediculous quest I'll give a rediculous answer....I'd ask Kate Beckinsale to name her price 🤘

I've been saving up my allowance--almost there!

Dolos, my Avatar body on KMC Forums, was born with a mind above current human evolution. Using his IQ of ten thousand and a few decades of work he has mastered the necessary probabilities and has seized complete control over the monetary system. He has total influence over everyone's wealth. In a way, Dolos is the world's Emperor, and no one knows but the agents in charge making sure no one finds out, who are paid trillions of dollars of one currency or another a day to maintain his anonymity. With his infinite wealth he has used massive amounts of energy to build a mansion made out of black crystalline gold on a man-made paradisaical island with grandiose statues of himself and monuments made in his name throughout a city there larger and more beautiful than any of the future cities of Asia. He literally has mountains of black-platinum laced golden nuggets in his mansion's chamber. The gold created from sophisticated technology that only the globe's stolen money could by over the centuries. He has kept himself alive through nano-surgical brain transplants and hibernation periods within cryogenic chambers so as not to spend too much money in one single life-time and bankrupt the globe, he has enjoyed it over various life-times.

He claims that his innate ambiguous, insidious and manipulative intellect is due to his clandestine Messianic nature as the prophesied apprentice of Prometheus and Pseudologi. Thus the name Dolos is merely a self-made alias.

I would put the money in the bank and continue to do what I am doing now.

Originally posted by Jim Colyer
I would put the money in the bank and continue to do what I am doing now.