There is a hypothetical set of actions that, if I had taken them last year, would have made me a million dollars. So I just lost a million dollars.
If I took the knowledge in a current human biology textbook and rearranged it in just the right way, I’d come up with the secret to immorality. So I have a chance at immortality but will fail at it.
I could go up to any person and, in theory, have just the right conversation with them to get them to do pretty much anything I wanted. But I don’t know that conversation to have. I have lost control of the world, of which I could have been master.
You’ve heard of Quantum Immortality… but have you heard of Quantum Silver Tongued Devil?
Quantum Hostage Negotiator?
Quantum Worst Possible Yet Most Persuasive Advice Ever Giver?
I’ve always found this kind of stuff mostly nonsensical.
… what about building a nano (pico? much much smaller?) scale device that takes advantage of the Casimir effect to say, generate … actually random numbers, not pseudo random numbers?
I love playing lil hypothetical games like that.
There is a hypothetical set of actions that, if I had taken them last year, would have made me a million dollars. So I just lost a million dollars.
If I took the knowledge in a current human biology textbook and rearranged it in just the right way, I’d come up with the secret to immorality. So I have a chance at immortality but will fail at it.
I could go up to any person and, in theory, have just the right conversation with them to get them to do pretty much anything I wanted. But I don’t know that conversation to have. I have lost control of the world, of which I could have been master.
Omg I get triggered by these hypotheticals.
There’s a hypothetical timeline where, say, if a time traveler went back to my childhood, they could brainwash me with the alt-right pipeline.
Like… okay that’s maybe enough hypotheticals… Very uncanny to think about.
You’ve heard of Quantum Immortality… but have you heard of Quantum Silver Tongued Devil?
Quantum Hostage Negotiator?
Quantum Worst Possible Yet Most Persuasive Advice Ever Giver?
I’ve always found this kind of stuff mostly nonsensical.
… what about building a nano (pico? much much smaller?) scale device that takes advantage of the Casimir effect to say, generate … actually random numbers, not pseudo random numbers?
Much more practical.