Chapter 30 page 1 ~ Please be more creative than “what are tomorrow’s lottery numbers”
Oct03
If you knew you could get a true, honest, and accurate answer to just one question . . .
. . . what would you ask?
But I'm A Cat Person
Magical showdowns on minimum wage
“How can entropy be reversed?” made a good Asimov story.
They might already know the answer. Does it LOOK like the beings are honoring thermodynamic laws?
“What information, if publicly known in the U.S., would make Trump’s removal from office by impeachment most likely?”
Malicious genie suggests making public a manual on “how to summon giant peach demons”.
I mean, you could always ask how to get rid of all persecutors in places of power. Everybody hates the Kims
One of the problems with this kind of wish is that the answer might be completely useless.
“How can entropy be reversed?” might result in “It can’t be” or “Collide a black hole with an antimatter black hole, each with mass of at least 20 galaxies”.
“How can we get rid of all persecutors in power?” might result in “Assassinate them” or “Develop and release a virus that kills all humans”.
That’s why I phrased mine as I did. It’s guaranteed to have an answer, at least as effective as the details of the Ukraine call, and all you have to do is release the information. (There are probably some failure modes I’ve overlooked — please feel free to brainstorm them.)
Hmm, good thing I specified “by impeachment”! If I just asked what information would remove him, the answer might have been a detailed guide on how to make deadly viruses or large quantities of antimatter. Release that and he’d be out of office pretty soon, yep yep. Because the office wouldn’t exist anymore, and neither would we.
Implicitly speaking, the prompt spoke of an honest answer, so at least you would be getting a step by step deatil on how to perform the assasination. And, of course, you fail case is that either no information would do the trick or said information having a very very tiny impact on his probability of impeachment (I mean, he’s only got a year or so left at best, and Clinton never got impeached for lying to congress because of that very reason).
In context, Obama is still in office (first term, I believe).
“Are you there, God?”
Her name’s Tansy, not Margaret.
How can I, using only the resources I currently have, bring the greatest joy to the greatest number of people?
“Mathematical formula for Unified Field Theory now please”
of course if the theory holds true that the reason they havn’t been able to this is because gravity is only indirectly related to strong, weak, and electromagnetism, but its not a force but an observed reaction between mass and “masslessness”, meaning any formula would be less unified and more cause and effect.
… I suspect there are lot of people who would totally ask “does (s)he love me” and consider it worth it.
I think if this is a once-off deal, then the “how to reverse entropy plx?” but if it’s one question PER PERSON then “who are the best X people to give the ability to ask their own questions?”
Instant, no side effects, weight loss pill
Or how to become allmighty, that could also work
… and might be easier.