Everyone is gifted with the ability to control their own fertility. You’re only fertile if you want to be. The only chance for pregnancy to occur is if both partners want it to.
I imagine that would cause a severe population decline, and I’m fine with that. There’s too many humans on this planet already.
This I like
the extinction of mankind
As an American, one of the most positive things that could happen to the world is the abolishment of the United States as a government. We’re directly or indirectly responsible for most of the ethnic cleansing that has gone on the last several decades.
What would you replace it with?
Is this retroactive?
Advertising is illegal
Might as well take it a step further and criminalize capitalism.
I wish for one electron to disappear from every atom. The net result would be that all atoms would now have a positive charge.
True, it would not only end all life on earth, but also destroy the entire earth. But everything would be positive.
Mandatory XKCD, sort of.
TL;DR
It breaks the whole universe. That’s a lot of charge density over a very substantial area.
No more cavities!
Low back pain eliminated in all humans.
Every child born has a flat increase of 0.0005% higher IQ, and is also 0.0003% more altruistic.
I really should have done the math ahead of time. That’d mean an increase of like 70k IQ per year.
I’d wish for the absence of discrimination
Good bye spam blocking
You’ve gotten a bad date for the last eighteen dates because you can’t discriminate between people.
Why though? Preferences would still stand but you wouldn’t discard people based on prejudice :D
Everyone religious wakes up tomorrow realizing that it’s just a social club and none of the god stuff is real.
So in this scenario where you have a magical Genie, you would use a supernatural being to stop others from believing in supernatural beings?
Whoa dude. I just woke up and was not prepared for philosophy!
fight fire with fire eh
Who said the genie was supernatural? If I can see the genie in front of me and sufficiently measure it’s existence, then it is real and natural. “Super natural” literally means “outside of nature”, i.e. stuff that doesn’t have any evidence of ever existing.
OP said so.
OP called it a magical genie. Magic is by definition outside of nature.
If presented by observable evidence the supernatural exists in one specific case (the genie) then it is reasonable to suppose there may be other supernatural beings.
If this were a highly advanced alien with probability manipulating technology, that would be a different question.
Magic is by definition outside of nature.
A magician would disagree with you :D
If this were a highly advanced alien with probability manipulating technology, that would be a different question.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
If presented by observable evidence the supernatural exists in one specific case (the genie) then it is reasonable to suppose there may be other supernatural beings.
Imagine I was a person who had never seen a narwhal, and thus didn’t believe they were real; suppose I believed them to be supernatural creatures. So to prove me wrong, you bring me to an aquarium and show me a narwhal and say, “look, a live narwhal. See? They are naturally occurring creatures”. I could respond with, “well no, that’s obviously a supernatural creature, and now it’s reasonable for me to also suppose that unicorns exist!” Do you see any flaws in my logic?
We’ve hypothesized of a situation where we have an observable creature in front of us. At that point, regardless of how “magical” we believe it to be, it is, by the definition of “supernatural”, not supernatural. However, when it comes to supernatural beings that we have not observed, this genie has not given us any more evidence for their existence.
Happy halloween!
Make everyone’s interpretation of “small thing” slightly more similar.
Metacognition becomes routine for humans. We are able to better de-fuse from our thoughts, and recognize them not as reality but as thoughts about reality.
This is the most interesting answer here so far. That’s something I’m currently working on, or at least trying to work on. Sometimes I’ll notice how my view on a thing changes completely without the thing itself changing or the circumstances changing. Just my mood and how I generally feel at the moment. That worries me, because it makes me trust my “gut feeling” about things less and less if it happens too often.
A deadly virus that kills assholes
I get your intent… I think, but taken literally that’s going to cause some issues. A virus that causes necrotic butt holes… Hmmm.
Hahaha i forgot genies are tricky that would be a shitastrophe.
Technically that’s just making the hole bigger. It’d have to seal them shut.
Simple. True empathy for everyone. Literally feeling what others feel
So every time someone stubs their toe, every other human would feel the pain? Everyone would be completely overwhelmed by all kinds of feelings all the time.
Not a very small thing maybe, but: All people gain ability to instantly recognise bullshit (at work, in media, interpersonal relationships, etc)
I’m not sure this would be a positive. I think there are a lot of pleasantries we afford each other to deescalate a situation.
I mean, we kinda see it anyway when people are lying a bit just to be polite, and I wouldn’t be mad about it. But that’s not what I was talking about.
What I really meant is the ability to see malicious lies, the ones designed to take advantage of us. This would be really OP, i think xD. I apologize for the misunderstanding, english is not my 1st language.
Fair, you’ve got to be careful with those genies though, if your wish isn’t carefully crafted they’ll happily use it against you 😉
