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Would you be willing to finish a project or creation instantly, in exchange for losing any experience or materials you'd otherwise have doing it the long way? (lemmy.zip)
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If it's a book, you have the manuscript but no research, notes, or prior revisions. If it's a program, you have the compiled binary but no source code or anything you would've learned writing it. Etc.

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[โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago

This sounds slightly like the premise of the movie Paycheck. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0338337/

Personally I mostly prefer the experience of doing things. Writing books, coding software, building things... They are what brings value to me on a personal level. Looking at the kids' playhouse in the garden brings value because I built it. Writing a book would mean something because I wrote it. If I just magically had it, it would be meaningless, even if it happened to be what I would have written, had I been arsed to do it myself.

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