Ask Lemmy

That’d be impossible for the psyche to actively pursue every single day.

I would recognize my limitations and the framework of reality, and I’d probably just start a website that I update every morning. That’s pretty much all I can do if it’s daily. Ignoring it would feel horrible and guilty, but actively dedicating all my time to try and find these people on a daily basis? That’s a surefire recipe for burnout and still, very damaged psyche because of all of those I got close to but didn’t get in touch of in time.

I hope, as it turns out to actually be true and the premonitions hold, word of mouth would get enough people interested that I can feel good enough about it, but also maintain the routine without fear of burning out.

1. Get real good at Geoguesser
2. Post details to local facebook groups
3. Repeat
4. Once I've been proven right a few dozen times become a global sensation
5. Save a life on the daily

Start a YouTube channel about it

I might be a sociopath...

Okay, so that's like two-thirds of the earth's surface (centered at the antipodal point), and it's a random person. It's almost certain that I don't know this person (aside from the info just given to me), and that the easiest way I can help save them in 24 hours is to warn them online.

First off, how can I be sure that those premonitions are real? They're of a random person that may or may not have an obiturary available to me after they've died. Worse, these obituaries might get published days after the death. Making sure that I'm not going crazy (or being driven crazy by those) would be pretty hard.

Listing the deaths (never in a computer, at least at this early stage) with all the details available to me would be a good start. The following details would be the most helpful:

• real name of the person
• the time of premonition
• date of the printed obituary (or the date of the newspaper where the obituary is printed on)

If there's enough data to convince me that it is indeed real, and be able to tease out the rules of this power, I can start saving people.

First off, I'll filter those forseen deaths. for those judged "bad", I'll keep the info to myself. I am assuming that part of this judgement is my morals, so I do have a hand in the deaths I fail to prevent, whether or not they're judged "good" or "bad". At any rate, this would likely be instantaneous, and would happen as I record the premonition and its details.

Second, I'll create a website, a very secure one for obvious reasons, with effort done to isolate myself (any information that can lead to me) from this website. In this website, there'd be a page listing all the premonitions I decided would be published. Marked as "impending" (or something equally ominous) would be the premonitions I witnessed within the past 24 hours. Another page would list all of those ones (and where people could be alerted). Heck, maybe I can establish an RSS feed for this.

I guess, it'd be like techno Death Note, but I have zero control over the details.

Of course, that'd not be a very effective way of getting the information out. Relatives and friends of those people listed might even suspect the page has something to do with the deaths. I'd expect law enforcement to be on to me, tracing me via the hosting services, the ISP, etc. that I use to publish the website. And in the event they do get to me, and if I'm afforded any trial, people might not even believe what I tell them (even if I tell the entire truth).

If I do nothing, none of that will come to pass, but I'd be racked by guilt over the "good" deaths I am not able to prevent. On the other hand, even just getting that information out, even if no one ever benefits from it, is already putting myself and those around me at danger.

Personally? I don't have the skills to create that website, let alone do it in such a way that it isolates me well enough to at least not get me arrested within a week of the site operating.

I remember there being a show like this. The guy would get a newspaper from the future and try to stop the front page tragedy from happening. Think it was called Early Edition?

Start a website like geoguesser, where you post everything you remember and have people compete to find and save the victim.

Well first off I would assume its some sort of psyche issue for me until the point I see a news headline or something to confirm it. Something like that anyway. If I was sure I was not going crazy I would make a youtube channel about it and publicize each case and figure over time people will know to like and subscribe. If you join my patreon I will email you if the name you give comes up right away just before or as im going live for my latest video.

Probably get high and rub one out.

If I can save them, then so can someone else, and I'm not really foreseeing their death, just a possibility. If my "gift" is as unreliable as that, I wouldn't call it foresight... So I would ignore it and go about my day.

My partner listens to a podcast about folks hiring Hitmen on the dark web.

They would call and warn the victims and basically nobody took it seriously.

Anyway, I'm not a big fan of hypotheticals. There's too many well what if it's this or what if it's that. So, anyway I just wanted to add some context to a real world situation that was somewhat similar, and how that went for the folks trying to help.