Isruleation

I'd be willing to linearly downscale.

I am sure that for me 3 Million is more than i could ever reasonably spend for the rest of my life.

So with 8760 hours in a year, that would be like 53 Minutes. You know what, make it a full hour.

Of all the ways to get 30 billion dollars, this would probably be the least emotionally disturbing choice.

I think this is one of those things where it seems totally fine to you but in reality it activates some kind of intrinsic biological limit that you aren't even aware of. I FEEL like I would easily conquer the nothing box by just doing a lot of great thinking. But scientifically, I kind of doubt that I really could. It's like if someone challenged me to eat only celery for a year. I might have the willpower to do it, but biologically I may just die. Now I don't think the nothing box would kill me, but I can imagine it making people go crazy for sure.

One year in that room would make anyone go crazy enough to not enjoy the money when they get out

If the year in solitary confinement doesn't turn you into a psychopath the $30 billion will!

Here's an easy way to kill time: try counting and see how close you can get to 30 billion

1 year and your insane

Or

Waste your whole life working towards 0.001% of that.

If I can write a will beforehand for who gets it then it’s worth it.

Don't forget drawing on the walls with your shit

I've seen VSauce's video where Michael does this for like, what, three days? And he's basically lost it by the end. So while this is tempting, no, I can't do it.

How about I do just a few hours for a pro-rated payout?

I like that Lemmy's first thought is pro-rated payments, and yes, it really does show how much money 30 billion is when you can make millions in an hour. My first thought was, I think I could actually pull out off for the full year.

Most people need some kind of social interaction, including folks with conditions that make that hard. I'm probably not an exception to that but I have learned ways to pass full days of time just story developing and singing and such. Creating characters also helps ward the loneliness, although I think the hardest part is being unable to actually write anything down. I could easily do a year if I had enough paper and a way to draw or write.

i mean, a year is absurd, and that amount of money is meaningless.

how about i just stay in for a day and get 82million instead

The reports on the linked wiki page of the use of things like this as torture aside, is there any research / evidence on how things like this affect people who are treated this way voluntarily?

I’ve seen video of someone volunteering to be waterboarded to show that it’s not that bad if you know what’s happening (spoiler—it was still very bad). I’d assume other kinds of psychological torture would be just as hard to deal with, even with full knowledge and consent.

And the lights never go out and there is no clock

If I survived the year, then spent the next year with $500k worth of therapy to become semi-normalish again, I'm still left with $29.9995 billion dollars. Hell yeah I'll do it.

If I were to do something so ridiculous for a full year for the full amount, I wouldn't be doing it for me. There's no way I would be able to spend 10Bn in my lifetime on things for me and my immediate family. I don't think that's even possible unless we were literally flushing money down the toilet, burning it, or throwing pallets of $100s from a plane while flying over a populated area.

I would use the 10Bn to create things like scholarship funds for colleges, where the only requirement is that you can prove you don't come from money (and can afford whatever education you want without help).

I would also be donating large amounts to charities and good causes, especially FOSS and things like the Internet archive.

Above and beyond that, I'd likely use my newfound wealth to create a company that builds open source or modular hardware for things currently dominated by big tech. Like mobile phones, specifically Android phones, and supporting companies doing similar work like framework.

I would only take enough to pay off my house, all debts, and for a savings/income fund so that I can live comfortably for the rest of my life without needing to work, both for myself, my spouse, and some members of my immediate family.

While in the box, I would let me ADHD brain wander endlessly and entertain itself, until it gets bored or tired, then sleep and repeat that 365 times.

30 billion and a chance to catch up on sleep? You son of a removed I'm in.

ITT: people forgetting that prisoners in the US are isolated like this, and it's literal torture.

You're not special.

I would just goon the whole year

Well I have maladaptive daydreaming and I think that would be mostly enough to keep me sane for a little bit.

I don't think I would even be sane enough to spend the money if I got out

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spanish-athlete-emerges-after-500-days-alone-in-underground-cave-180981998/

I can't afford 30 billion dollars, can I do it for free?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi

Hamatsu was challenged to stay alone, unclothed, in an apartment for Susunu! Denpa Shōnen, a Japanese reality-television show on Nippon Television, after winning a lottery for a "showbusiness-related job". Hamatsu was challenged to enter mail-in sweepstakes until he won ¥1 million (about $8,000) in total. Hamatsu started with nothing (including no clothes), was cut off from outside communication and broadcasting, and had nothing to keep him company except the magazines he combed through for sweepstakes entry forms. After spending 335 days to reach the target, Hamatsu set the Guinness world record for the "longest time survived on competition winnings".

Can I sit there for a day and get 82 million?

a lot of people seem to be assuming solitary confinement, but nothing in the prompt actually indicates you can't have visitors. furthermore, you might have a lightswitch. being able to turn the lights off to sleep and chat with visitors might significantly slow your descent into madness. (though anyone would probably still be pretty fucked up after a year).

I mean, it is essentially torture (solitary confinement for a year) but for a 30 bil sure.

My head is not the worst place to be in, I bet I could come out of it only slightly damaged.

I'd do it no matter how much it would mess me up, and all that money, except enough to buy a nice house in my city, would be going towards an endowment for a trans charity. Its mission would be multi-faceted, providing direct supports for trans people alongside fighting legal battles. Hopefully that would nullify the contributions of people like J.K. Rowling.

Would definitely do it*.

• If the assumed necessities are met (lights don't even need to go off & the water can be warm).

The option to spend a day and take the 82m if downscaling is an option is wrong; 4Billion for 50days is the deal. Like surely you had a worst 2months and didn't get to do the following afterwards: set aside 1B to meet your needs and the needs of most people you know without working for a day of the rest of your life, 1B for projects that cannot fail (cushioned by the mountain of money or pile of gold), and 2B for any cause you believe in (go nuts: make a mini utopia, a nationwide dystopia, preserve the status que, or risk it and go after terrible people who would have never felt justice otherwise).

Why go out ? I would buy the place and stay there so everyone can fuck off.

Honestly I think it'd be fine. I could practise oral traditions such as storytelling and singing, dance...

I'd enjoy trying to recall my life story up to that point and eventually be able to remember everything I've done and seen in detail, and be able to tell it all conversationally in amusing ways. I've never been happy with my autobiographical memory, and I never really tell stories about myself. I bet I could be a more integrated person if I spent time on that.

So I'm assuming I get food, water and a bathroom. Also a lightswitch though likely one I control myself so I can't use it to gauge time. I'm probably not making it out fully sane but I think there are some mitigation strategies.

• Exercise, try and gameify it by keeping a high score.
• Arts and crafts with my food (maybe my hair too?)
• Some recreational math potentially using the grid of tiles, probably no more than 5 minutes a day before I get sick of it but any variety helps.
• Wall looks potentially climbable?
• Get good at shadow puppets.

When will Mr Beast make a YouTube video of this challenge?

What about the toilet facilities (or lack there of)?

No way. Fuck that

At least you wouldn't be alone - hat man is with you 🖤

You would go insane. Full on.

Chekhov's short story The Bet has a similar setting, except that the person has access to books but not other people.

my ex would sleep it through

Lots of time to Meditate.

I can't afford to pay 30bn for this.
\ Can anyone help me out?

I don't think there's even a remote chance any non-coma victim would endure this

I'd give myself 2 weeks tops.

And I also build little race cars out of my poop! It's Wing-Dangily wonderful madness!

Yes I would definitely do it

But I don’t have 30 billion dollars.

probably could these days. I'm just tired all the damned time and can sleep for like 28 hours at a time

Practice meditation for a year and have enough money to actually make a difference in this world after. Sounds ambitious but I think I'd have to give it a shot.

My plan for getting thrown into iso for whatever reason is to paint the sacred geometries in blood so idk that I'm a whole lot better.

I'd do it, assuming my basic needs can be met. Lots of opportunity for exercise and meditation. That year would fly by.

Yep, I’d just exercise and sleep.

I'm going insane already what's the difference