As asked
Genetically make humans unable to make children. Good by humanity.
Have all Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Google servers go up in smoke and watch the world realize how much we depend on these four fuckwits
eliminate poverty
Absolute poverty or relative poverty?
Get rid of religion.
Organized religion? How do you define religion?
Free or not, religion is brainwashing
That humans are actually the rational beings many claim themselves to be, rather than animals that makes decisions based on emotion and then rationalise why they made the decision.
I feel it would solve all the problems other commenters have mentioned.
So, exclusively rational decision making?
Pretty much.
The co2 we are emitting into the atmosphere is leading to problems.
Rational response: reduce our co2 emissions as fast as possible.
Our constant population expansion and habitat destruction is causing a new mass extension event:
Rational response: Limit population growth. reduce environmental impact and regenerate damage already done.
Etc
etc
etc.
While I agree there are some problems that would be best solved through rational thinking, I wouldn’t want to live in a purely “rational” world. The entirety of the human experience lies between the gaps of rationality.
That’s a popular trope that is spouted by anti-rationalists all the time, but it’s a total red herring. It’s one of those rhetorical tactics that is designed to disrupt judgment and put a stop to a conversation before the absurdity of the claim is made obvious. It’s drilled into us as children through tv, movies, even books, but it’s entirely false.
Rationalism has plenty of room for fantasy, emotion, and everything else that humans experience. It’s not a choice between being rational and being a fully developed human. The choice is between being rational and being irrational. Everything else is its own separate thing.
Wanting to feel love and happiness is quite rational too. Irrational feelings are not “anti- rational” they are just orthogonal, like color to taste. But making decisions based pure on feelings IS anti-rational.
I’d change a single bag of Cape Cod party-sized sea salt potato chips so that it would be at my current location.
Probanly erradicate akrasia. A lot of the world’s problems are down to rampant akrasia on the part of most people.
Thanks for teaching me a new word!
Any time! I find being able to put a name to it makes it slightly easier to call ourself out for doing it.
Akrasia - A lack of self-control or acting against one’s better judgment.
Get rid of greed
I’d turn down human greed 30%
The part where the ecosystem is in collapse?
Would that be stopping global warming or all the extinctions?
Ideally, global warming, but it would be fair to view that as pointless when dissipating the extra CO2 doesn’t necessarily return the trees and the problem would degrade again in a couple hundred years. You’d have to introduce a new fuel source that is sought after, clean, and eternal. Which would be two wishes.
So you have to define it as both of your options, since the loss of either worsens the other. Turn the whole environment back to where it was in the 1200s, overrun the streets with bears, see if I care. It’ll give 'em something to do. Especially the Amazonian avocado farmers.
No more cancer. Life is hard enough as it is.
Everyone gets perfect genetics.
You’d have to be really clear about what you mean by “perfect”.
I’d crank all human empathy levels by 15/100 points to see what happens
Replicators, people gotta eat.
And holodecks, because people have to do other things.
eradicate capitalism
