Author Topic: 10 godlike things and you can only pick one. What would you pick?  (Read 9499 times)


you know what else you could do with that keyboard?

you could make a one-level video game that is impossible to lose, and when you win it creates the programs neccesary for artificial intelligence that cannot harm humans under any circumstances.

^ boom, game idea.

also those 3 laws of AI. what was that guys name again?

sell out use of the AI to make trillions by selling it to countries.

repeat the basic idea (super easy one level game that, on winning, does X) for anything you want.


look if you don't pick the loving keyboard you're dumb.

you can create all the stuff in the OP indirectly by the knowledge you gain by using the exploit i mentioned in my last post

yes, even Gaben, Zelda, and the chicks. you could make some sort of a system that makes living being out of existing shi- wait that's a bad idea, don't do that. too many moral obligations.

yeah, you could just make a game that creates real world stuff. hopefully my computer will be able to run it

Wisdom is the key to decision making.
So I'd pick the toilet if I wanted to have a reasonably realistic life with that perk.

However with the reincarnation pill, you could choose to describe your reincarnation as an immortal, or to spawn money out of your arse, either way. The reincarnation pill needs more rules. But if it sticks with the rules it has, that would have infinitely more possibilities than the others.

All of the others will give you attention/money/personal power.

Wisdom Toilet/Reincarnation Pill have the most possibilities, therefor, the best options. [Edit] (The Keyboard might also have more possibilities, but it doesn't display anything supernatural or the like)

If you chose any of the others, you might fall into the "I went to college and switched degrees, wasting $20k" death trap.

look if you don't pick the loving keyboard you're dumb.

you can create all the stuff in the OP indirectly by the knowledge you gain by using the exploit i mentioned in my last post

yes, even Gaben, Zelda, and the chicks. you could make some sort of a system that makes living being out of existing shi- wait that's a bad idea, don't do that. too many moral obligations.
Need to wait a year per use, though, and thats a huge setback for me.
Can someone explain to me what exactly the Ring can do? I've only watched the first movie don't kill me guis. :C

Reading J's post, yea, I think I'll go with the pill.

morality can forget itself
if there's ever a point where I could spend enough time playing the game I made to let me learn everything, I would most certainly find out how to make myself ruler of the world and possibly everything else. then I would continue my research of everything and eventually find a way to give myself the ability to do literally anything
at which point, morality is a thing of the past

because I would have learned EVERYTHING
there is no need for morals when you know exactly how everything is going to turn out from your past experiences (which would be plentiful since you'd be immortal and would have lived for so loving long)

also those 3 laws of AI. what was that guys name again?

Asimov's rules.

The one ring, and ask for it to grant you all 9 other things

Monocle so I can see anything from anywhere I want.
even Blocklanders :D

Use the pill to reincarnate as a human who woke up with infinite wishes.

yeah, you could just make a game that creates real world stuff. hopefully my computer will be able to run it
OKAY CHANGING MY GAME IDEA
super easy one level game that RUNS ON EVERY COMPUTER PERFECTLY and, on winning, does X WHICH ALSO RUNS ON EVERY COMPUTER PERFECTLY


forget guys, you could even have a game idea that ALLOWS YOU TO BYPASS THE 1 YEAR LAG TIME.
seriously.
Asimov's rules.
yeah him
I could spend enough time playing the game I made
woah woah, you could make the game so finely crafted it functions in the space of 60 seconds.

The possiblities with the keyboard are limitless. The pill, on the other hand, requires you to know the day in which you die! I mean, yeah, you could kill yourself, but you would remember dying. who wants that stuff?

The toilet? It doesn't say infinite knowledge, it says, let me quote - "useful insights"
wtf is that stuff, forget that, give me everything.
Use the pill to reincarnate as a human who woke up with infinite wishes.
you can do this with the loving keyboard, and you DON'T HAVE TO DIE.

I'd take the toilet.

Given that I already do my best thinking on the toilet, this would be an exponential increase; I could, with sufficient time spent pooping or simply relaxing on my toilet, make a great game.

For me it's not about the result it's merely about making it so the keyboard's a no-go. Also not about ABSOLUTE POWER LOL or immortality, just making a cool game for cool people that's reasonably fun but not perfect

Humblest guy ever

Also the keyboard wouldn't give you infinite power since it only says it makes software - and no matter how well optimized it is it would still suffer from technological restraints, no matter how insightful it is the game will not teach you anything unless you are capable of learning it. Software is software and any effect it has on the outside world is only in terms of what you take away from it, and that is entirely up to you and nothing to do with the game.
« Last Edit: July 22, 2012, 02:01:50 AM by M »

woah woah, you could make the game so finely crafted it functions in the space of 60 seconds.
well what's the fun in that
plus I don't wanna be ruler of the universe as a 14-year-old
then again I could just change my age using my everything power