You have one wish!

[silver wolf009]

Honestly, I'd wish for a universal language, preferably one that everyone knew in addition to their native language. I really feel like it would be helpful to the world if everybody was able to communicate.

Actually... That's a really good wish, that would help humanity as a whole.

Wow, that really caught me off guard. I wasn't expecting something of this nature, both meaning the concept of language, and the rather selfless nature of the wish itself.

Good show.

Yay, I made a think!

Congratulations on your think my good sir.

 

[Rowan93]

I'd wish for the ability to multiply myself like Billy Numerous.


Think about it. I could get 70 different jobs, and even if they were all minimum wage, that's something like 500 dollars an hour. With the clones sustaining me, I'd never be short on company, conversation, or cash. Best part though? I'd not have to get a job. The clones would.

If you split into 71 separate people, and 70 get minimum-wage jobs, that means that 98.6% of you is working a crappy minimum-wage job. It also means you have to pay for 71 people's food and clothing and possibly housing with that money, depending on how long you stay dispersed. You'll at least have to have lunch separately, most other expenses can maybe be avoided but it'll be tricky. And that's if you're not too worried about being visible, but really you should be because your powers don't make you any less vulnerable to the government. If one of you is captured by the government and experimented on, you are actually going to experience that crappiness, even if another part of you is free. On that topic, you probably get to experience multiple deaths.

Or, if the clones are less inherently you, you'll just get the more boring problem of rebellion and getting your ass kicked by yourself.

There's no need to feed or water the clones, as they simply disolve back into Billy upon command, or when he reaches his limit. I don't believe we were ever given an exact number for his limit, but it was more than enough to literally pick up and steal a BRIDGE. And we're not talking some piece of wood, we're talking this kind of bridge:

Spoiler

And bring it to a football stadium he more or less filled on his own.

The clones are duplicates, and work towards a shared goal, as is demonstrated by them forming human ladders and other formations, plus that Tron style maze. This means they're either following orders, or simply working together for a common goal. They know they're finite, and they don't seem to resist or disobey, so mutiny isn't a likely possibility, and could easily be undone by reabsorbing them in the incredibly unlikely possibility they do cause trouble.

And I don't regularly die on any given day at work, so why would I experience multiple deaths? Also, I'm pretty sure they don't share sensation.

As for the government thing, don't let more than one version of me be seen together. Hell, if I wanted, I could propose a business agreement with the government. I'm pretty sure any government would kill for a replicating platoon.

EDIT: Forgot to mention they the jumpsuit, so they do duplicate clothes, although more than likely simply skin tight ones, so one suit can cover us all.

They need to be fed if they stay separate long enough that it gets to lunchtime. If 71 of you meet up at the same restaurant, you're not exactly keeping it on the down-low. Plus, your work clothes (none of which will be skintight because you'll be dressed like normal people) will have to go somewhere, and after lunch there'll be 70 of you either naked or in weird skintight clothing trying to organise and get dressed. It'll make quite a scene, and it's much easier to just go to about 71 different places to eat, or pack 70 different packed lunches.

If there's about 70 of you going to 70 different jobs, one of you will probably die in a car crash or something in a year or two. And that you will be as much you as any of the other yous, so you'll be experiencing that death. It might not really count as multiple deaths that way... you'll experience death with multiplicity? Something like that. It basically just goes with experiencing being in two places at once.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

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Fine... I wish you would have taste buds on your anus. =P

Candy-flavoured buttplugs.

...touché buttplug man.

 

[silver wolf009]

I'd wish for the ability to multiply myself like Billy Numerous.


Think about it. I could get 70 different jobs, and even if they were all minimum wage, that's something like 500 dollars an hour. With the clones sustaining me, I'd never be short on company, conversation, or cash. Best part though? I'd not have to get a job. The clones would.

If you split into 71 separate people, and 70 get minimum-wage jobs, that means that 98.6% of you is working a crappy minimum-wage job. It also means you have to pay for 71 people's food and clothing and possibly housing with that money, depending on how long you stay dispersed. You'll at least have to have lunch separately, most other expenses can maybe be avoided but it'll be tricky. And that's if you're not too worried about being visible, but really you should be because your powers don't make you any less vulnerable to the government. If one of you is captured by the government and experimented on, you are actually going to experience that crappiness, even if another part of you is free. On that topic, you probably get to experience multiple deaths.

Or, if the clones are less inherently you, you'll just get the more boring problem of rebellion and getting your ass kicked by yourself.

There's no need to feed or water the clones, as they simply disolve back into Billy upon command, or when he reaches his limit. I don't believe we were ever given an exact number for his limit, but it was more than enough to literally pick up and steal a BRIDGE. And we're not talking some piece of wood, we're talking this kind of bridge:

Spoiler

And bring it to a football stadium he more or less filled on his own.

The clones are duplicates, and work towards a shared goal, as is demonstrated by them forming human ladders and other formations, plus that Tron style maze. This means they're either following orders, or simply working together for a common goal. They know they're finite, and they don't seem to resist or disobey, so mutiny isn't a likely possibility, and could easily be undone by reabsorbing them in the incredibly unlikely possibility they do cause trouble.

And I don't regularly die on any given day at work, so why would I experience multiple deaths? Also, I'm pretty sure they don't share sensation.

As for the government thing, don't let more than one version of me be seen together. Hell, if I wanted, I could propose a business agreement with the government. I'm pretty sure any government would kill for a replicating platoon.

EDIT: Forgot to mention they the jumpsuit, so they do duplicate clothes, although more than likely simply skin tight ones, so one suit can cover us all.

They need to be fed if they stay separate long enough that it gets to lunchtime. If 71 of you meet up at the same restaurant, you're not exactly keeping it on the down-low. Plus, your work clothes (none of which will be skintight because you'll be dressed like normal people) will have to go somewhere, and after lunch there'll be 70 of you either naked or in weird skintight clothing trying to organise and get dressed. It'll make quite a scene, and it's much easier to just go to about 71 different places to eat, or pack 70 different packed lunches.

If there's about 70 of you going to 70 different jobs, one of you will probably die in a car crash or something in a year or two. And that you will be as much you as any of the other yous, so you'll be experiencing that death. It might not really count as multiple deaths that way... you'll experience death with multiplicity? Something like that. It basically just goes with experiencing being in two places at once.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor...

They'll just tough it out for the day and not get lunch. Then I can eat for all of us, after I dissolve them.

You're trying to create gripes about magically granted comic book super powers. Not a wise endeavor.

 

[Rowan93]

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Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor...

They'll just tough it out for the day and not get lunch. Then I can eat for all of us, after I dissolve them.

You're trying to create gripes about magically granted comic book super powers. Not a wise endeavor.

Well, yeah, you could do that, I suppose. The main issue I wanted to point out was that the duplicates are still you, and so you're still working minimum wage jobs. You seemed to skip over that bit.

Yeah but these powers are towards the crazy end of what transhumanism in the future can actually provide, so thinking about the metaphysics issues is important.

 

[silver wolf009]

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Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor...

They'll just tough it out for the day and not get lunch. Then I can eat for all of us, after I dissolve them.

You're trying to create gripes about magically granted comic book super powers. Not a wise endeavor.

Well, yeah, you could do that, I suppose. The main issue I wanted to point out was that the duplicates are still you, and so you're still working minimum wage jobs. You seemed to skip over that bit.

Yeah but these powers are towards the crazy end of what transhumanism in the future can actually provide, so thinking about the metaphysics issues is important.

I work a minimum wage job anyway, so there's no change there.

And moreover, it's not the muscles or presence of this body, the one my consciousness is encapsulated in, that's being used to work the job. It's a replicated clone's muscles and time that are being used.

EDIT: I lied. I make about a buck more than minimum wage an hour. Also, there's nothing to say I couldn't get higher paying jobs. It'd just be harder/more time consuming to find that many.

 

[BlackStar42]

I'd probably wish for a long and happy life. But that's boring, so I'll go with the power to teleport anywhere on Earth.

 

[Rowan93]

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Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor...

They'll just tough it out for the day and not get lunch. Then I can eat for all of us, after I dissolve them.

You're trying to create gripes about magically granted comic book super powers. Not a wise endeavor.

Well, yeah, you could do that, I suppose. The main issue I wanted to point out was that the duplicates are still you, and so you're still working minimum wage jobs. You seemed to skip over that bit.

Yeah but these powers are towards the crazy end of what transhumanism in the future can actually provide, so thinking about the metaphysics issues is important.

I work a minimum wage job anyway, so there's no change there.

And moreover, it's not the muscles or presence of this body, the one my consciousness is encapsulated in, that's being used to work the job. It's a replicated clone's muscles and time that are being used.

EDIT: I lied. I make about a buck more than minimum wage an hour. Also, there's nothing to say I couldn't get higher paying jobs. It'd just be harder/more time consuming to find that many.

And now we get to the juicy metaphysics.

When you split yourself over multiple bodies, you end up with more than one consciousness. Each one is a separate mind for the duration of the split, but each one remembers a past that was you, and when you merge the combined self will remember each of the separate experiences. Thus, you will experience the minimum wage jobs as well as whatever the prime you (which is, of course, a bit meaningless) is doing. Your memories when you combine again will consist of eight or so hours of partying, and five-hundred and sixty hours of menial work.

Alternately, the clones are "meaningless" duplicates, which are created and then destroyed, but they must still have a consciousness, because they have a human brain. They're people. In fact, they're not just humans with human brains, they're yous with your brain, so the matter of you experiencing all that minimum-wage work is still there, it's just that the extra selves are being destroyed. Even if you're fine with the ethics of creating yourself and then destroying yourself, what makes you so sure you're the core self, and not a duplicate that was created, and is going to be destroyed at the end of the day?

Plus, issues of whether the "duplicates" would rebel aren't necessarily gone just because Billy Numerous doesn't get that problem, that could just be evidence in favour of the less rebelley option, i.e. the split/combine one, over the create/destroy one.

 

[silver wolf009]

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Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor...

They'll just tough it out for the day and not get lunch. Then I can eat for all of us, after I dissolve them.

You're trying to create gripes about magically granted comic book super powers. Not a wise endeavor.

Well, yeah, you could do that, I suppose. The main issue I wanted to point out was that the duplicates are still you, and so you're still working minimum wage jobs. You seemed to skip over that bit.

Yeah but these powers are towards the crazy end of what transhumanism in the future can actually provide, so thinking about the metaphysics issues is important.

I work a minimum wage job anyway, so there's no change there.

And moreover, it's not the muscles or presence of this body, the one my consciousness is encapsulated in, that's being used to work the job. It's a replicated clone's muscles and time that are being used.

EDIT: I lied. I make about a buck more than minimum wage an hour. Also, there's nothing to say I couldn't get higher paying jobs. It'd just be harder/more time consuming to find that many.

And now we get to the juicy metaphysics.

When you split yourself over multiple bodies, you end up with more than one consciousness. Each one is a separate mind for the duration of the split, but each one remembers a past that was you, and when you merge the combined self will remember each of the separate experiences. Thus, you will experience the minimum wage jobs as well as whatever the prime you (which is, of course, a bit meaningless) is doing. Your memories when you combine again will consist of eight or so hours of partying, and five-hundred and sixty hours of menial work.

Alternately, the clones are "meaningless" duplicates, which are created and then destroyed, but they must still have a consciousness, because they have a human brain. They're people. In fact, they're not just humans with human brains, they're yous with your brain, so the matter of you experiencing all that minimum-wage work is still there, it's just that the extra selves are being destroyed. Even if you're fine with the ethics of creating yourself and then destroying yourself, what makes you so sure you're the core self, and not a duplicate that was created, and is going to be destroyed at the end of the day?

Plus, issues of whether the "duplicates" would rebel aren't necessarily gone just because Billy Numerous doesn't get that problem, that could just be evidence in favour of the less rebelley option, i.e. the split/combine one, over the create/destroy one.

I'm not sure how much of this would apply, as I'm not an avid follower of DC universe cannon. If you'd like, you can E-mail DC about it, and they might get back to you.

As for me, I'm just chilling with myself, and all the other versions of myself.

You know, I can do that. Because I made a post on an internet forum about how I'd wish for that if I were given one wish, and I didn't take it too far.

 

[Rowan93]

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Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor...

They'll just tough it out for the day and not get lunch. Then I can eat for all of us, after I dissolve them.

You're trying to create gripes about magically granted comic book super powers. Not a wise endeavor.

Well, yeah, you could do that, I suppose. The main issue I wanted to point out was that the duplicates are still you, and so you're still working minimum wage jobs. You seemed to skip over that bit.

Yeah but these powers are towards the crazy end of what transhumanism in the future can actually provide, so thinking about the metaphysics issues is important.

I work a minimum wage job anyway, so there's no change there.

And moreover, it's not the muscles or presence of this body, the one my consciousness is encapsulated in, that's being used to work the job. It's a replicated clone's muscles and time that are being used.

EDIT: I lied. I make about a buck more than minimum wage an hour. Also, there's nothing to say I couldn't get higher paying jobs. It'd just be harder/more time consuming to find that many.

And now we get to the juicy metaphysics.

When you split yourself over multiple bodies, you end up with more than one consciousness. Each one is a separate mind for the duration of the split, but each one remembers a past that was you, and when you merge the combined self will remember each of the separate experiences. Thus, you will experience the minimum wage jobs as well as whatever the prime you (which is, of course, a bit meaningless) is doing. Your memories when you combine again will consist of eight or so hours of partying, and five-hundred and sixty hours of menial work.

Alternately, the clones are "meaningless" duplicates, which are created and then destroyed, but they must still have a consciousness, because they have a human brain. They're people. In fact, they're not just humans with human brains, they're yous with your brain, so the matter of you experiencing all that minimum-wage work is still there, it's just that the extra selves are being destroyed. Even if you're fine with the ethics of creating yourself and then destroying yourself, what makes you so sure you're the core self, and not a duplicate that was created, and is going to be destroyed at the end of the day?

Plus, issues of whether the "duplicates" would rebel aren't necessarily gone just because Billy Numerous doesn't get that problem, that could just be evidence in favour of the less rebelley option, i.e. the split/combine one, over the create/destroy one.

I'm not sure how much of this would apply, as I'm not an avid follower of DC universe cannon. If you'd like, you can E-mail DC about it, and they might get back to you.

As for me, I'm just chilling with myself, and all the other versions of myself.

You know, I can do that. Because I made a post on an internet forum about how I'd wish for that if I were given one wish, and I didn't take it too far.

I don't see what DC has to do with it, I'm only caring about DC universe canon to the extent that you would potentially bring it up and use it to argue a point, and I'd like to pre-empt that so I can talk about philosophy instead of comics. But if you want to stop talking as soon as things do get into philosophy instead of comics, that's fine too.

 

[blipblop]

Idk.. that people would be more opend to each other and more respectful of different minded people yeah I know a bit lame but I cant think of anything else and I guess that alot of unnecessary fights/hating comes from not accepting that other dont think like you

 

[Hawgh]

Happiness for everyone

 

[TheOrb]

The ability to dissassemble and reassemble on command...
@0:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocm8QdNR_d8
Utterly pointless, but it would be a great party trick!

 

[TheOrb]

Dammit doublepost!

 

[sr.orgasmo]

I would wish for an invincible mecha army that only I and my offspring could command.

 

[minimacker]

More fairies, of course!

No, really.

 

[SD-Fiend]

I'd wish for a book that let's me rewrite reality. i'd make it so that the book would make changes that were either noticed or unnoticed so people will think it was always like that and not question it.

 

[dvd_72]

MORE GENIES!

I would have wished "More fairies" but I think your still counts as a ninja

Probably a body that remains at peak condition for my age no matter what I do to it. I'd stipulate that it includes a brain that operates at peak capacity too. No more forgetfulness!

 

[Wintermoot]

instant healing/unable to die

infinite money is fun but having a job as worlds best stunt man would be allot more fun.
Alternatively assassin

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I'd wish for my best friend to be able to walk again. I know it's not very overarching but it's what comes into my head whenever anyone asks me what I would wish for.