by soneca on 7/23/16, 11:58 PM
Creating a crypto virtual currency, convincing a lot of key people to put trust in it, working behind shadows to make its value goes unprecedently high. Uses an admittedly fake name to uncover its identity while still managing to create trust that it is ok for it to keep most of the value that this crypto-currency is creating.
by blastrat on 7/23/16, 10:03 PM
why isn't the answer "hang around outside Yankee Stadium hitting balls, running, and catching them, till you get discovered and signed"? or something athletic like that. Seems a lot better than the "super productive web designer" answer that was getting love over on stackexchange.
I considered boxing, but you probably have to pay too many dues (timewise) first. But you can be signed and stuck out on a baseball field pretty quick; signing bonuses, etc. Tennis? Basketball? Soccer (in one of the places that calls it football)? Golf?
Where can you get a signing bonus and start hauling in the big money right away?
Also worth mention, I have heard recently that there is a way to break PHP, hack Pornhub and earn $20k!
edit: just out of curiosity, why was this answer disliked by somebody? cuz I said Yankees? soccer? athletics rather than nerd dreams? Cu-uz, I still think this is the best answer I have seen.
by adontz on 7/23/16, 10:00 PM
Reminds me of Limitless movie. Probably gambling (no identity required to start) is good idea for the first step, and stock exchange is good idea for the second step.
by pipio21 on 7/23/16, 9:12 PM
If he does not feel pain, then he is not superhuman, but subhuman.
When we designed an artificial limb, we "discovered" how useful pain is. We really need some skin that could discover on their own collisions with other objects, that should not be there, but are.
by smoyer on 7/23/16, 9:17 PM
Now that my coworker Hydrothermal has outed me, I guess I should confess that I've been hiding in plain sight. on the bright side, I can finally be myself! You wouldn't believe what a relief this is as it's extremely hard to hide the fact that your arm grew back. The first time I used all my sick days but simply returning with the new arm gave me away (I didn't realize human medicine couldn't regenerate a limb).
by btrask on 7/23/16, 9:21 PM
License out portions of its own technology. It'd be worth billions.
by CarolineW on 7/23/16, 7:58 PM
Get pocket money by going on and winning "Who wants to be a Millionaire"
Play poker.
Trade currency.
by duckingtest on 7/23/16, 11:49 PM
What does the robot really want? Literally money? Power over people? Just the planet itself, with humans as nuisance?
In any case, break in to a modern biotechnology lab with everything needed for genetic engineering. Create a highly infective biological thing (not necessarily a virus) that, after infection, creates a biological circuitry that makes a human perfectly obedient after some defined signal. A much simpler versions of that already exist [0]. Now just start infecting people and use their resources to spread it even wider. Even if a small part of a population is immune it's not a problem.
Few days at most and you own everything.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-altering_parasites_an...
by pizza on 7/23/16, 8:39 PM
From a computational complexity standpoint, the big-Oh of "superhuman" matters a whole lot; for fast-enough growing functions, even the most paltry of individual arbitrage opportunities will accumulate into more wealth than has ever existed..
by Animats on 7/23/16, 9:40 PM
Online poker to start, until enough money has been accumulated to move into hedge funds.
by burger_moon on 7/24/16, 12:31 AM
Someone from stackexchange mentioned ARM and creating a company that designs chips.
This robot has a brain that is a supercomputer all self contained within that runs off small amounts of oxygen. Since it has such a high level of intelligence it should be able to blueprint itself.
Once the robot is able to recreate itself, it could go 2 ways, either selling off parts of it like compact supercomputers, or build an army of other superhuman robots and take over the world.
To get started however, a bit of online gambling is probably necessary to get the required funds.
by HillaryBriss on 7/23/16, 10:11 PM
The described superhuman robot has so many capabilities that the question does not seem intriguing. There are so many powers and possibilities.
Maybe some capabilities should be removed from this robot?
by JetSpiegel on 7/23/16, 9:31 PM
I liked the "use own brain to mine Bitcoin" comment.
by lifeisstillgood on 7/23/16, 10:45 PM
The Talk Show circuit. Write a book about your life as a robot, throw in a couple of amusing anecdotes about being too heavy to swim, or trying to get through metal detectors at customs, then a heart rending story about not giving up on your dreams - robot or human.
Option the rights to Hollywood and big money is yours. Spend it on replacing the diodes down your left hand side.
by paulpauper on 7/23/16, 11:38 PM
Put money in some sort of investment that exceeds inflation and then hibernates for 1000 years
by noonespecial on 7/23/16, 10:46 PM
I'd have to lean meta on this one. The superhuman would come up with a way previously unimaginable to pull it off on account of being superhuam and all. Thats kind of the point.
The "fastest way" is to be superhuman isn't it?
by RandyRanderson on 7/24/16, 12:11 AM
Easy: Superhuman sex robot. Call it Frank Furter. It would be a doctor, of course.
by soneca on 7/23/16, 11:53 PM
Inside trading using lots of shell companies through lots of offshores.
Use his people skills to gather confidential information, use his mental skills to disguise correctly the trading.
by awqrre on 7/23/16, 10:14 PM
Play Jeopardy and then gamble/manipulate the stock markets.
by percept on 7/24/16, 12:28 AM
Surprised nobody mentioned HFT.
He also sounds like the sort of candidate many startups are looking for in their job ads. So there's that.
by sporkologist on 7/24/16, 12:21 AM
Go to Vegas, then hire Saul Goodman to handle the rest.
by Turing_Machine on 7/23/16, 9:36 PM
Politics (using human shills as necessary).
by bitwize on 7/23/16, 11:37 PM
Build and sell cuckoo clocks?
by uryga on 7/23/16, 10:02 PM
Why does the author refer to this unknown robot as "he"? What use could a gender be to a nonhuman superintelligence?