A genie appeared and is willing to grant you god-given talent in one skill or area. You won't become instantly amazing, but practicing will be easy, fun and natural, and you're guaranteed to become a legend in your field if you apply yourself. What skill do you pick?
Notes:
>The total pool of talent will be the same no matter what you choose, so if you neglect becoming an amazing chemist there will come a genius to replace you, so the net gain for humanity is roughly the same no matter what you choose, though it won't have the personalized direction that you would give it.
>You will earn $100k a year from your talents if you try to earn money through them, no more and no less.
>You can't choose social interaction as a skill. Sorry!
Math. I've never had any mathematical ability and I feel like less than a complete human without it. Would be nice to not have my entire brain turn off when presented with anything having to do with maths.
KilIing.
Being antisocial.
>>35094685
>>You can't choose social interaction as a skill. Sorry!
fuck you
training animals i guess
>>35094723
isnt that basically what marx did
>>35094747
>unironically I'm a communist too
Hmmmm.
>>35094685
Electric guitar
Or
Pro poker player but you said I cant earn more than 100k a year so thats stupid
>>35094685
That's an easy one, Art.
I want to be a serial rapist!
>>35094778
That counts as social.
>>35094719
thats me stop trying to steal my identity.
>>35094762
>Pro poker player but you said I cant earn more than 100k a year so thats stupid
you'll be a legend as the laughing stock of poker.
>>35094791
No, it's more of a physical skill
t. OP
>>35094801
>we don't live in a thoughtcrime dystopia
It's social. Think about it.
>>35094758
>he's a worker
go back to r/communism
>>35094819
either way I'll allow it, it's more predatory than social
Language learning
>legend in a field
>$100k a year
OP confirmed for basement-dwelling NEET with zero clue about the value of money.
chaturbate model
>get paid $100k to jack off on camera for an hour at most
playing the cello
Cooking
easy $100k as an executive chef
my dream is gonna come true
>>35094853
I know you can get more, the point is the skill itself, not the money. 100k is a comfortable amount of money to live on. I don't want people to choose becoming an investment banker just so they can get rich.
Mathematics, I feel somewhat the same as >>35094719
But it's more along the lines of actually enjoying doing anything besides masturbation and eating.
>>35094831
>animals don't communicate as they attack each other
>the screaming herbivore
>the growing carnivore
>>35094822
>he must be from reddit!
Le strawman meme out of fracking nowhere eh?
Music. Singing or an instrument, presumably guitar but I'd be okay with sax/piano/trumpet. Even though 100k is paltry compared to real professionals, it would be enough for me. But for the fame and the tours and what it would do for your sex life...I think that's the dream.
>>35094685
>"being a youtuber"
If I can make 100k annually through YouTube, I'd be pretty satisfied.
>>35094941
>can become the next einstein, michelangelo or mike tyson
>wants to become the next pewdiepie instead
for what purpose anon?
>>35094994
>implying those people made the world a better place
Bodybuilding 100k a year and i look good
>>35095006
>implying they didn't
Okay, tyson is so-so, but the rest totally did
>>35094685
Martial arts/weapons training
Become literal fedora.
Threaten anyone who thinks they can laugh at my edge
>>35095076
>this nuke will stop all wars
>everyone police action to the point of calling it wars now
So that's scientists being for shit. Now art.
>something something ancient tech and silly religious art
Yeah his wind up cars were totally cash, and his steam cannons yo. Saved the world made us all happy for real.
>>35094941
but you already could do that. you're just a lazy piece of shit.
>>35094896
100k is nothing. In an expensive city that's just enough to live a passable, not comfy life. You're completely clueless. But that's because you have no job and mommy buys everything for you.
>>35094836
This.
Such adventures, Such work offers.
singing probably.
Photography. Really comfy work and hobby.
>>35095114
Of course, since you're on /r9k/ you're most likely a complete self-hating philistine so I didn't expect much of you, but both relativity and quantum theory are extremely important scientific concepts today and and michelangelo is nothing but an artistic genius which is self-evident just by looking at his work.
But when you hate yourself you project that hatred onto the world and curse it for positioning you where you are, so nothing has value for you. I suggest ending your life, it's not a sin after all.
>>35095114
>>35095203
Get rekt fucking pleb
If you don't pick AI, Human life extension, or Biomechanical engineering then you suck.
We need geniuses bringing us into the future.
>>35095169
I live comfortably as a student on 12 k a year so I don't know what the hell you're talking about, and in the US 100k+ is like the top 10% of the population. Either way you get 100k in this fantasy scenario no matter how much you bitch, take it or leave it.
>>35095203
>quantum theory
So when are the scientists going to start time traveling, teleporting, and all of that rather than pretending to know things with their '''''''theories''''''' huh?
I hate society because it is full of shit, not myself. You are the one projecting because you wish you were a genius. You wish you were smart, I don't care because I know it doesn't even matter.
piano
Ive been teaching myself but I'm still at a novice level. I wish I could skip through this shit.
>>35095230
I make more than 100k a year and am nowhere near rich. Just wait until you get into the real world, you will see how expensive living actually is.
>>35095222
Scroll up, the question specifically says that even if you don't pick something, someone else will come in and do it, in such a way that nothing with advance humanity any faster or slower.
>>35095244
>So when are the scientists going to start time traveling, teleporting, and all of that rather than pretending to know things with their '''''''theories''''''' huh?
educate yourself and stop relying on sci-fi anime for your understanding of science
for my bachelor thesis I am developing IR-fluorescent cancer probes using simulation software based on quantum mechanics, it's basically impossible to do without quantum theory, and this is fucking baby stuff
Singing.
This is original, fuck the bot and Hiroshimoot.
>>35095283
wait this or astrophysics
>>35095294
Don't forget to bump your head before you finish your project Doc.
>>35095244
>you are the one projecting
>because you wish you were smart
Nice projecting there shitdick
>>35095285
Who said you were going to be rich? If I wanted to make you rich I would have said that you would turn into a billionaire, I gave you a livable salary. Want to pretend to earn more, pretend to work a job unrelated to your pretend talent.
>>35095287
Well, you can add your personal touch, like if you become an amazing computer engineer you could make robotic vacuum cleaners or AI killbots, so it's not completely irrelevant to humanity what you choose, but either way a genius is coming.
If I had to choose something, it would probably music-related. I've had so many instruments over the years and I never learned to play most of them. Wish I wasn't so fucking lazy.
>>35095334
>>35095316
stay mad, world-hater
>>35094685
god-given talent granting
>>35094685
I know this sounds edgy, but I'd rather work on every talent myself.
>>35095368
no you
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probably restoring motorcycles
i already kind of do it but i'm not very good at it
>>35094685
>A genie appeared and is willing to grant you god-given talent in one skill or area.
is creativity a skill
i'd either choose that, or drawing ability
>>35095585
why not hymen restoration?
or virility restoration?
Hard choice maybe metallurgy or chemistry. Materials have always been pretty important to advancement.
survival
i live forever
>>35094734
sexing animal
Golf.
>I already like it
>top tier pro golfers make more money than any other professional athletes
>can have a career well into your 60s
>golf groupies are awesome
>>35095230
I dont think 100k is top 10% bud. I earn 89k last year and i barely have savings. Maybe its just cali
>>35094685
Drawing porn.
bitch makes 63 thousand dollars a month because she's a massive jew and also probably lives in a tax paradise(if she even pays tax for it), she set her patreon to bill twice a month instead of standard once a month.
She draws fanart pretty well and gets filthy rich from it.
pic related.
>>35095644
i'm not into medfag stuff. yucky
>>35095853
holy shit she makes 600k a year for drawing porn? wow
>>35095822
It's what wikipedia said
>Of those individuals with income who were older than 15 years of age, approximately 50% had incomes below $30,000 while the top 10% had incomes exceeding $95,000 a year in 2015.[2] The distribution of income among individuals differs substantially from household incomes as 39% of all households had two or more income earners. As a result, 25% of households have incomes above $100,000,[8] even though only 9.2% of Americans had incomes exceeding $100,000 in 2010.[2]
>>35095853
that shit's not even good goddamn
>>35094685
Being a fiction author. If I'm good at it I should have a comfy little house beeing a NEET all day with the capacity to write well. Sounds fucking great to me.
I'd become a video game designer/director and ascend the artform to the same status as literature, music, cinema and visual art. Only problem is that you need to jockey for budgets, but that's part of being a good developer as well.
>>35094685
r o b o t i c s
>android gf incoming
bio-engineering so I can turn myself into a cute girl
>>35095722
>>top tier pro golfers make more money than any other professional athletes
you forgot about the rules faggot, 100k per year max
>>35094685
art of course
oh wait i'm already doing that lol
To become a polyglot. Either that or the best league of legends player alive.
>>35094685
I want to be the Einstein of AI Engineering. Make godlike-AIs something real. Some overpowered videogame-tier AI, like Cortana or Blade Wolf (There's better examples, but I don't have them in mind right now).
This would be my gift to Humanity. Best case scenario, we create God. Worst case scenario, we go extinct.
It's a win-win situation.
>>35096650
there's such a long road ahead in AI that you could probably go with 5 one-in-a-lifetime geniuses focusing their efforts onto it and still not even reach the level of a dog
>>35094685
become the best drawfag on this god forsaken forum, fuffiling as many Anons requests as possible. Maby if even get a trip, maby I'll be cool
>>35096650
why don't you just tie a sword to your dog's tail now?
>>35094685
I wanna be John wick. He managed to have a wife AND a dog. Also cools guns and shit.
Lifting desu
It'd be fun and I might get a gf
>>35096674
Good, we're 48 posters in this thread.
>>35096745
It wouldn't be used to create gay weeb robots. It would be used to enhance Humanity as a whole.
>>35094685
Chuunibyou
The only skill of worth to humanity!
>>35094685
Chemistry. So I can acquire what I need with my knowledge to make a comfy concoction to kill me in my sleep.
>>35094685
Being a genie
origenieal
>>35094685
hacking hehehe XD
Language. I'd like to be fluent in a dozen languages. That would be rad.
>>35094685
Becoming a super sayian god as powerful as Goku Black
>>35096685
Oooooh fukk yhats nice whish
>>35098304
Did you learn nothing from disneys Aladdin?
>>35094685
Bioengineering, with an emphasis on genetics.
Does the skill have to be real? If not, magic. If so, then stunts, specifically gymnastic type stunts
>>35099058
I've never seen it because I hate niggers and anime and it's both of those things
I wish all life in the universe was dead
>>35099179
You become Zamasu