Let's say a death clock is created

 
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Laws of physics, uncertainty principles, and the notions of fate or destiny aside, let's assume for a second that a watch is created that cannot be tampered with in any way, and it is mathematically exact down to the very second that you will die.

Let's assume for the sake of things that the watch can alter it's timer accordingly based on what you do. It doesn't state what or where you will die. Just when. The watch is deemed scientifically accurate and demonstrates to be completely fail-proof.

This watch is handed out to every person on the planet.

Jokes about Jihadis watching the countdown on their vest aside, how do you think it would affect you? Do you think it would affect the world's population in any significant way? How so, do you wager?


 
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This music video comes to mind.

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What use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?
Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.
If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it).

If it can't predict things such as that, how can it predict the rate at which someone naturally ages and will die?


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What use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?
Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.
If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it).


The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.

I dunno what I'd do, I don't think I'd look at it tbh. Ducktape the watchface, leave it in my cupboard, and be one of the "edgy" dudes who doesn't know when they'll die.

You'd get plenty of reactions similar to Futurama's Deathclock

"Ooh, Ooh, Dibs on his TV!"
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What use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?
Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.
If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it).


The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.

I dunno what I'd do, I don't think I'd look at it tbh. Ducktape the watchface, leave it in my cupboard, and be one of the "edgy" dudes who doesn't know when they'll die.

You'd get plenty of reactions similar to Futurama's Deathclock

"Ooh, Ooh, Dibs on his TV!"
duct tape*

tuct tape*


 
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What use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?
Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.
If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it).


The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.

I dunno what I'd do, I don't think I'd look at it tbh. Ducktape the watchface, leave it in my cupboard, and be one of the "edgy" dudes who doesn't know when they'll die.

You'd get plenty of reactions similar to Futurama's Deathclock

"Ooh, Ooh, Dibs on his TV!"
duct tape*

tuct tape*
fuct tape*

Gorilla tape*


 
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What use is it if it changes in accordance with your actions?
Let's say you want to test it so you're gunna shoot yourself.
If it recognizes that you are poised to shoot yourself and adjusts itself to less than a few minutes, but didn't already have it set to such a short time before, then it failed to account for how you would naturally react to it (wanting to test it).


The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.

I dunno what I'd do, I don't think I'd look at it tbh. Ducktape the watchface, leave it in my cupboard, and be one of the "edgy" dudes who doesn't know when they'll die.

You'd get plenty of reactions similar to Futurama's Deathclock

"Ooh, Ooh, Dibs on his TV!"
duct tape*

tuct tape*
fuct tape*

Gorilla tape*
Giraffe tape*

I just listed two superior brands of tape to duct tape and all you did was give me poop.

What are you going to do about that.


 
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The timer could reflect the pure chance that the gun goes off pointed at your head by accident. Say you stood in the middle of a road, if you watched the timer and waited for it to count down, the end result is some distracted or drunk driver plows into you. Or you got on a 3 hour plane flight and your timer dropped to 2 hours... uh oh.
If the timer doesn't update until you put yourself in a situation where common sense tells us death is inevitable, then it's really shitty at it's job. An ideal deathwatch would know with mathematical precision where everything is in the universe and how they relate to the status of your life, and magically being able to know quantum outcomes, deduce when precisely you will die. It would be able to know that you are going to put a gun to your head to test it before you even think to do so.


 
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I'd look, I'd be interested to see it.


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Let's assume for the sake of things that the watch can alter it's timer accordingly based on what you do.
This sentence throws this thread into the limbo of being totally ambiguous