It comes with instructions. You get to ask it one question and it will give you a straight ‘yes’ or ‘no’. The answer will definitely be factually true, forget about how you know this, you just do.
You will be unable to use the answer to convince other people, it’s just for your own information.
If you ask something which can’t be truthfully answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’ it will answer ‘dunno’ and you will have wasted your question.
Once used, it will harmlessly self destruct leaving no trace.
I just want to say, I think this is a great question!
Unfortunately I need a little more time to come up with a single question that will somehow benefit more than just my curiosity.
Yes, unless the answer it gives and your subsequent actions might change that future, in which case, your risking a ‘dunno’. For example, you can’t ask it if you will have toast for breakfast tomorrow and then deliberately do the opposite of what it says. It will see that sort of thing coming.
I was leaning to this as well. Pretty useless information on its own, but I’d quite like to know. Gotta admit I’d be shocked and disappointed by a ‘no’ though.
Perhaps It’d be safer to ask if I ever really had a shot with that girl I liked back in high school. Then again, perhaps sometimes it’s better just to wonder.
I admit these questions and similar occurred to me; the problem is that you really can’t get massive bets down on either of these. I think $1000 is around the max on roulette tables, and NFL bets - at least in Vegas - pretty much top out at $10,000.
Live horseracing, on the other hand, doesn’t have limits, though you can move the odds if you bet enough. Then however you’re stuck trying to come up with something more complicated, for example something like “will this moderately favored horse win or place?”
I feel like there’s something I’d be able to figure out in the financial markets and daytrading, but I haven’t worked that out yet.
