Since it’s one or the other, we can assume the objective value of the red pill is $10mil. So, you take the blue pill and use that $10mil to make another $10mil and then you buy the red pill and save it until you’re about to die in a boss battle.

One thing to consider, assuming the red one is mental time travel (which is the only way it’d really be at all useful), you’re essentially murdering everyone who exists from your subjective present to the jump point to replace with at best very similar clones and possibly no one or completely different people. Then you have to also assume the timeline isn’t fixed and you can actually change things, and thus contend with butterfly effect causing divergence making your knowledge less useful. Sure, little changes probably won’t impact things on a global scale for a while, but once you start doing big things like investing or preventing terrorist attacks or something that could cause major divergence. Ethically any kind of useful time travel should be limited to “World is already wiped out” scale scenarios where the alternative is worse.

There’s nearly 0% odds I end up with the same wife and kids twice and I hit the jackpot the first time around. Give me the money.

por qué no los dos? Punch him in the mouth and do whatever you want.:-P

Or just stare deeply into his eyes until he blinks, then turn around and leave the room. You’re F-ing Neo, you don’t need to play these kids games - if there’s something you want, you just materialize it, easy.

Ofc… if this were a more irl scenario, I don’t think I’d be taking pills from some random dude offering me to either “get rich quick” or turn me into a 6-yr-old, pudding or no. Maybe this is how he gets rich, by selling my organs or some such.:-P

I’d grab both pills and quickly swallow them just to see what would happen. I might end up a 12yo with $5million. I’d be so obnoxious

Is cyanide an option?

Blue pill. I have an amazing wife and kids and there’s no way I’d risk that

6 years of age would put me in 1978.

There is a lot I could do from that point onward, that would make $10M look like spare change. Like investing in Apple, or working with Tim Berners-Lee to more effectively launch an Internet that could better resist corporatization and enshittification.

No brainer. Restart at 6 years old. Time is priceless.

Blue, easy. A 6 years old me can’t do much even with my current knowledge, and i have to live through a childhood with my current world view and a slightly abusive father. Even if my goal is to redo everything it will take years for me to even have people taking me seriously, or have the “requirement” to set things up, i’ll be stuck in a child body with no one listening, that’s a nightmare.

10 millions though, i can set aside 50k to be used in the near future, pay off my mortgages, and the rest invest in a low risk profile and live off the rest of my life from dividends, and perhaps set up businesses in that actually reward blue collar worker.

Red pill, buy bitcoin, easy win

Is the cash tax free? If so, jump on that shit.

If it isn’t, maybe take the money, but probably just walk away

With the red pill I would have knowledge of my neuro oddness stuff which would have been SUPER FUCKING HELPFUL. I could have avoided all the self inflicted misery of middle and high school. I only can guess at what I would be doing as an adult if I were a self aware and confident kid.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my life despite the path that I took to get here but I feel bad for little me.

I thought red at first, and if it were only slightly different parameters I’d still choose it, but 6? That’s too far back to be trapped in a child’s body and environment. At least going back to a more plausible age for a grown up’s mindset like teenage years would be a bit easier to deal with and to lay low, it’d be strange how much more mature and less reckless and slightly boring of a teenager you had suddenly become, but at least it wouldn’t be like international news. At 6, life is going to drastically changed by your seemingly impossible linguistic skills alone, child development experts would want to study you, you’d now be a prodigy, not necessarily a bad thing but unless that specifically was the path you’d always wanted but never achieved, you’d now be pretty well set down that road and all that comes with it. The relationship with your parents would be so different and they’d be robbed of your childhood and suddenly have this adult they’d never met before to deal with after barely getting any time to get to know their own child. It’d be so frustrating too, no one would let you drive and you couldn’t drink, or fuck. You’d hopefully be able to get yourself some more autonomy than your average 6 year old if you revealed all your cards right away because it’d become immediately clear that fisher price toys and curfews and first grade weren’t appropriate for you, but even so your adulthood, already well underway by this point would be drastically curtailed for something going on a decade. Maybe you’d decide to play like in a movie and adopt secrecy so your parents and peers don’t know how smart you are, but that’d frankly be way worse and so exhausting and lonely and alienating.

If this was, maybe start again at 14, or better yet 16, I’d take that red pill no problem. It’s most of the benefits of the blank slate try again with benefit of hindsight premise, but skipping over the parts that would be simply intolerable for an adult. At 16 you’re a ‘young adult’ getting to relive some of the things you miss about being a child but with many of the benefits of being an adult and biologically you’re pretty much over the worst of it, if you really hate the social restrictions imposed upon you by being not technically an ‘adult’ you’re only 2 years away from fixing that, not over a decade, and when you get there you’ll be in way better control of the trajectory of adulthood. Most of the really decisive things about adulthood that trace back to childhood happen around this time as well so it’s where you’d get the most bang for your buck. You can take a very meandering path up until that point and still change direction but this is where decisions start to become more binding and long lasting so it’s really the point where most people, if you asked them, would probably begin making tweaks if they could. I reckon the details about one’s current life that most people want changed wouldn’t have any meaningful correlation to things they did when they were 6, it’d be things like their career, or relationships they’ve had or wish they’d had, it’d be academic ability or a better body not ravaged by years bad lifestyle choices pretty much all of that is something you could very impactfully change at 16 without the need to learn to read all over again.

Red, easy. I was raised by total red necks (heh), complete hicks, and it did give me bottom of the barrel ideas about what i wanted to be. I could have healthier habits and work towards a better self earlier. Money? I’ll just be an early Bitcoin adopter and make all the cash I’d ever need. Hell if it came down to it i could make money on the dark web and use my age as a shield and tool. Friends? I could cut out bad friends early and find my future friend group whenever i want, I’d probably even have an advantage since I’m way more of a nerd now (see that first point).