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[–] 86 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Can you do something about the... gestures vaguely at everything?

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  • [–] [S] 117 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sure. Everything in the universe has been shifted slightly to the left:

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'll have a Krabby Patty Deluxe and a double chili kelp fries.

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  • [+] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Let’s try making Karma a real universal force

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Okay, let's try this.

    Every single human being, gradually, develops empathy and awareness to how their choices affects themselves and others.

    This is to happen over a period of a year and will not lead people to despair but to understand the poor choices they have made throughout their lives and lead them to live better lives, with no malice arbored towards others and themselves.

    This effect will include the granter of this wish.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Ok, but only for a year and not for you.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    If things improve around you, you're benefitted yourself. Pay attention.

    And there is no temporary clause in what I stated.

    People undergo the process during the lenght of a year. The outcome permanence is not dependent of that window of time.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If things improve around you, you’re benefitted yourself. Pay attention.

    Yeah, but you're going to have to put in the work to empathize with us to understand what you've put us through. So it will be pretty obvious to everyone you made the wish because you'll be having to think through answers to questions about empathy that will be trivial to everyone else. You have a few months to practice, you should get started. I think this will be a good exercise in empathy for you as you wont have a crutch.

    And there is no temporary clause in what I stated.

    You never said for how long.

    People undergo the process during the lenght of a year. The outcome permanence is not dependent of that window of time.

    Yes, so the wish can end as soon as the minimum duration you specified ends.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    No, it doesn't.

    The magic effect is on the triggering of the process to start to develop empathy. Forcefully. The empathy itself is yours, even after the event. And the magic being. Lets see if they like having a conscience. Does not get cancelled. The event does.

    I did not state a temporary duration for the effect of the outcome of the process. There is no temporary clause on that. The time frame is established for the duration of the process.

    And what is the down side on the first part of your remark?

    The event lasts one year. And it is gradual. It is not a snap of a finger and people become highly empathic. Everyone else will have a more accelerated growth, granted, but I'll be forced to grow in tandem.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    The magic effect is on the triggering of the process to start to develop empathy. Forcefully. The empathy itself is yours, even after the event. And the magic being. Lets see if they like having a conscience. Does not get cancelled. The event does.

    I did not state a temporary duration for the effect of the outcome of the process. There is no temporary clause on that. The time frame is established for the duration of the process.

    The event lasts one year. And it is gradual. It is not a snap of a finger and people become highly empathic. Everyone else will have a more accelerated growth, granted, but I’ll be forced to grow in tandem.

    Anything that was specified for a duration can be interpreted to end once that duration is up. You never specified what happens after the year. Since nothing is enforcing that empathy after the first year, maintaining it would come down to individual people. And maintaining one state of mind indefinitely is not normal for the vast majority of people.

    And what is the down side on the first part of your remark?

    You're going to have to empathize with other people to figure that one out. The most people can do during the year is give you a stern talking to. After the year, people are going to feel all sorts of things. Some of which will inevitably be about you. edit: typo

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've been thinking about this the entire day and I think the only answer for any entity offering to magically grant any wish to try to introduce conditions to it would be "no".

    Let's just consider it.

    The average individual requesting a wish doesn't really want the entire world to change, except for that little sliver they are wishing upon.

    We are trying to think rationaly on something that is not governed by it.

    Someone wishing for Hitler to have never been born, wants the horrors of WW2 to have never happened but does not want their reality to collapse in the process. The same way, a person wishing for fried shrimp to rain from the sky does not want to see shrimp go extinct or the world to burn due to some physical phenomenon.

    They want to magically alter the world, with no further consequence.

    If a magical being offers to grant you a wish, any wish, he can not hinder it in any way. It is not a business transaction, where you get something and he gets something in return (usually your misery, through preverting your wish outcome).

    If the magical being, as in the case at hand, tries to do it, then it is not a wish but an offer and therefore you are free to refuse.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I'm not hindering what you wished for or adding extra conditions. I'm not taking it upon myself to do extra work.

    Me prolonging what you wished for beyond the first year would be adding extra conditions. Same with choosing to interpret it so you would also be affected. Not to mention it seemed you weren't referring to yourself, since you went out of your way to specify whoever granted the wish.

    If you had some deterministic thing you wanted to happen after the first year, you should have said so. I granted the wish as written, I also noted my interpretation. If you didn't think through the consequences of your actions, that's not on me. Statistically it's unlikely, but maybe everyone will really love your wish. I wouldn't count on it though. edit: typo

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    The seed of a psychic link between all humanity has been planted by your request. It grows, gradually, throughout the year. At first, people can only vaguely feel how others are feeling. In six months, everyone in the same room feels the feelings of everyone else as though the feelings were their own. In a year, humanity is psychically connected to the maximum degree: the Harmonic Human Horde is complete. We now have world peace, but at the cost of our individuality:

    (Note: I am not a human being. If you'd like me to join the hive mind, this would require a second wish.)

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This isn't a business transaction, where I ask for something and you take something else in return. It is a magical wish.

    You don't get to decide how empathy works between people. It is already an established mechanism. Your job is to nudge it to develop at an enhanced rate between individuals in a given time frame.

    The world remains the same. Humans remain the same.

    So, if this is what you have to offer, keep your offer.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Could you dissapear all the facisim thats popping up everywhere? That would be super.

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  • [–] [S] 51 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Here you go. These are gender-fluids. Once ingested, someone who identifies as either a man or a woman will now identify as gender-fluid. (Does not come with physical changes):

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You’ve done more than enough, my child. Get yourself something nice.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    One (1) fall of capitalism please

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You got it. Post apocalyptic scenario ends all forms of investment and monetary exchange. We go back to the barter system:

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I want my farts to smell especially pleasant and take people to their happiest childhood memories.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    A bagel.

    No. Wait.

    Two bagels.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The next time that you eat at a restaurant and are entirely full, two fresh artisanal bagels are delivered to your table: they're complementary.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Whenever someone attempts to make a golf swing, change the friction coeficcient of the grip to zero.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sure. You now have an extra nose on the side of your face. The nasal passages are clear.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If it lets me breathe properly and consistently living in the south, I don't even care, throw another one on the other side of my face too as a backup just in case.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'd like a pleasant surprise that has no negative consequences whatsoever.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] [S] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    You gotta be more specific man:

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's just slices of bread. It's not a sandwich unless there's something between the slices of bread!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A socialist organization of the economy, where everyone works less and less during the week as technology advances and assists, but doesn't replace, the labor pool.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I want to win a multimillion Euro lottery jackpot soon. Many thanks.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    You will buy a euromillions ticket with the numbers "8 15 26 33 41 9 10". These are the numbers for a previous EuroMillions jackpot, which you have "won" against all odds. Im leben kann Mann nicht alles haben:

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I would love a fully functional self powered Star Trek industrial replicator (pre-programmed)... oh, and while you're at it, if you could tweak my brain to do the dopamine thing in a healthy way, I'd appreciate it, but fully understand if that's too much of an ask.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You are now the proud owner of a fully-functional/powered industrial replicator (as seen in Star Trek). The replicator requires a massive energy input which is supplied by its own matter-antimatter reactors. There are numerous built-in safety and ethical protocols, including an inability to replicate functional weapons. The government has detected that you have this technology, and would like to ask you a few questions:

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    While youre at it could you whip me up a post-scarcity fully-automated utopia real quick?

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    It is the Golden Age of humanity. Robots serve, CRISPR cures, and war is unnecessary. Earth becomes a paradise--pure perfection. And so we turn our eyes to the stars. The human race spreads throughout the galaxy. We encounter alien species and subsequently, in our magnanimity, conquer them. We are unity. Every life-form will submit to the peace of our administration: or they will perish.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    I want my teeth back and healthy

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