Age 14 is when my ogre genes were really hitting full swing. So if something was to be done to prevent myself from looking like an ugly ogre, it would have to be before age 14. But even if I started a T blocker at age 10 somehow, with my genes I might have just ended up looking like blackops2cel instead. I could have planned my surgeries a bit differently but ultimately I was always going to be ugly no matter what I did.
I unfortunately kinda let myself go in my 20s. My diet and lifestyle were pretty awful from age 21 (when I stopped gymceling) till my late 20s. I'd start off on a whole food plant based diet the moment I could afford my own food, and start some supplements early on as well. I potentially could have avoided
some of the health problems I've had/have.
I wouldn't have wasted so much time on dating websites and cold approaching women. I'd enjoy getting to relive the culture of the early to mid 2000s. It would be bitter sweet though, knowing it wouldn't last. When you're young you don't really think about how the culture is going to radically change and that one day you'll come to the sobering realization that the world you grew up in is long gone. But I'd have the foresight of knowing there's this low trust, hyperintroverted, terminally online, radical feminist, reddit, tik tok, brainrot society coming down the pipeline and I would be powerless to stop it.
Bitcoin didn't exist yet, so I would have to wait almost a decade to invest in that, though that would give me plenty of time to save up money to invest in it early on. Get some high end PCs and mine the fuck out of it 24/7. Hopefully that wouldn't somehow invoke the whole "butterfly effect" thing and change the timeline and make bitcoin worthless somehow...speaking of which.
Make a youtube account in 2005, I'd try to become famous by predicting things like who's gonna win the world cup, become president, etc.
That could be fun tbh. I'd like to go back and be seen as some kind of prodigy.
This is always a fun thought experiment, but the problem here is by going public and predicting the future, you'd likely invoke the butterfly effect. While I'm skeptical of the whole "move a chair 50 years ago and the USSR would have won the cold war" idea, making a public channel and predicting the future would ultimately change the timeline for sure. Maybe when your channel is small, your first or second predictions might come true. But then if you blew up, it would lead to many others potentially making different decisions, any one of which could alter the future. Then the rest of your predictions would be way off. One wrong prediction and you lose all credibility.
I think a better idea would be to make predictions for how technology would evolve and how society would broadly change. For example, smartphones would have been invented and everyone would have them no matter what, but maybe instead of Apple, a company like Nokia or Blackberry could have had the "iphone moment" and captured the market. Or instead of Facebook, maybe myspace could have dominated. Or instead of Tik Tok and Reddit, people would spend all day on some other site, that would operate, function and be moderated extremely similarly to how those sites are.
The specifics and minor details could change a lot, but the "big picture" and the general trajectory of society/humanity would remain the same. You wouldn't be able to change it no matter how hard you tried.
But of course I realize making predictions about technology and society as a whole wouldn't make you seen as a prophet to the general public in the way that predicting every super bowl result down to the exact score would. It would still get you credibility and get you a niche audience if nothing else.
