One sophon we get to fly around the universe looking at stuff.
I’d say that’s the most benefit to mass ratio and therefore it’s a small thing that would really help the world out
People will just use it to perv on each other.
That’s what I’m talking about man. We can finally get some Washington DC nudes and make the world a better place.
Just think: Hillary Clinton, Mitch McConnell, even Nancy Pelosi and Ariel Sharon in the buff!
Eradicate all mosquitoes
Elimination of the tribal parts of the brain that want to go to war.
Make everyone understand basic propositional and predicate logic.
I wish red meat allergy was sexually communicable.
After decades of sci-fi/fantasy entertainment to prime us, the primal part of the human brain that reacts to in-group and out-group members suddenly changes in every human and we start reflexively and unintentionally classifying all earth life as friends and space/environmental threats as enemies.
Humanity immediately gets serious about climate change, CO2 reduction, and the like, but we also get way too zealous about deploying space lasers.
The invention of a small easily producible power source that never runs out and has enough power to power vehicles/planes/vessels of all kinds.
RTG enters the chat.
maybe not easily producible, but RTGs almost fit the bill
I’m trying to focus this answer on something that seems like a really small change:
I wish everyone is slightly more empathetic.
I feel like this could give us a lot of small nudges toward being better people and a better society. I wonder if a small nudge could end up having a profound effect.
With a baseline minimum empathy. Cause damn, some people really bottom out that needle.
Yes. But i was trying to make my change small… which is, of course, subjective. For me setting an empathy baseline feels like more than a small change.
It probably would, butterfly effect and all. That’s part of the reason why I’m trying to evaluate why I do the things I do, trying to see how they impact other people more versus in my youth. It might be small, but enough small things do add up, compound even.
Compassion
no more hiccuping
Simple. True empathy for everyone. Literally feeling what others feel
“If by allow you mean force…”
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.
Apparently, the word empathy isn’t as well understood as I thought.
Under typical usage, it refers to emotions, not full sensory input. Think Deanna Troi from star trek.
I’ve never actually heard/seen it used to refer to sensory input.
And, yes, even if it’s “only” emotions that are picked up, it would be distracting. This would radically change human society. That’s the entire point of the question in the post. It would be even more of a change with full sensory input though.
Imagine a world where that guy that’s creeping along on the highway isn’t just making people angry, because everyone that gets close knows that he’s grieving so hard he can barely function. You feel that grief yourself. Or, if you prefer your interpretation of empathy, you can feel his bowels cramping and realize that he’s going slow because he’s looking for an exit.
Now, this doesn’t automatically mean that everyone is going to act with kindness. But it does mean that none of us could ever again just dismiss someone else’s state of being. We would know that the other person is a feeling being and that makes being cruel an entirely different proposition. Whe we would feel, just like it were our own pain, what our actions cause, it’s gong to make people slow down and think before acting.
If people are only able to respond in a socially appropriate manner as a result of literally feeling others’ feelings, doesn’t that mean they still only care about others to the extent that it affects them? Wouldn’t such a response still be rooted in self-centeredness?
Wouldn’t actual selflessness mean accommodating someone else’s emotional state specifically when you don’t/can’t identify with them? (Maybe more like sympathy than empathy?)
Sure, but the net effect is still the same. Giving everyone true empathy wouldn’t eliminate psychopaths and sadists entirely, I’m sure. But for the average person, that barrier to spite and cruelty would be enough.
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
Remove the UK
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Exactly, tho i’d give NI to Ireland
Ah yes, genocide. Lovely.
Nono, i mean to just balkanize it so it stops existing, no genocide here.
It’s not really genocide because the UK is very multicultural. It’s even better than genocide.
/s
Maybe just England?
Every one gets a strong moral compass that they can’t ignore.
Sure we won’t all have the same morals but I believe that most bad things in the world happen because people ignore morals and act selfish and only a small part of our issues stem from actual moral differences.
Edit: Seems I am much more optimistic than I thought.
Rates of religiously based terrorism would go through the roof. The problem is that people that, e.g., bomb abortion clinics believe that they are doing the morally correct thing, because it’s better to murder a few people than to allow those people to “murder” thousands of innocent “babies”. Likewise, you’d suddenly have people that are casually racist now immediately turn to full-on race war shit, because if you believe that nonwhite people are causing harm to the “white race” simply by existing, and you have a moral compass that you can’t ignore, then the moral thing to do is to prevent that harm by killing the people committing the harm, esp. when you believe that they’re irredeemable by virtue of genetics.
You could argue that “moral compass” means more than just a strong sense of right/wrong. Presumably, most people have that, even if we don’t describe it as such. I think OP intended something more like a “strong sense of harmony” wherein everyone has a shared common understanding of some greater good and therefore work towards it with common cause.
It’s still a fairly naive notion, but for an entirely different reason. Rather than self-righteous chaos, such a wish would lead to a sort of moral tyranny imposed by one single person’s preconceptions of what constitutes a moral life.
Dude according to some people not straight cisgender people wouldn’t have rights and would be killed
This is a horror movie I’ve pitched.
There’s a ton of really shitty people with strong moral compasses they can’t ignore. Most of them follow faiths ending in ity, ism, or lim
Depends what you mean by moral compass. I don’t think anyone’s conscious tells them “man, we really shouldn’t be mixing these textiles”. They might feel guilty for breaking rules they want to follow, but that’s it.
Whirled peas
