I assume we’re actually talking NEARLY unlimited power: no actually time-traveling to when you were born and killing yourself just to solve the grandfather paradox once and for all; given information theory, and the power to bypass the “no quantum xerox” limitation, I could effectively reset the relevant light cone and run it under read-only mode to gather information needed to make an afterlife for everyone’s who’s died...if i could also figure out how to pre-prune the run to ensure it winds up at exactly the same branch.
But move one is to hit my thought fast-forward button. Just in case I CAN’T do that.
Then I’d install an afterlife. A lot of humans already believe in one, and it solves the problem of death with minimal interference in the status quo. It’ll probably be mediocre at first, but it WILL be given cable TV. Whether it gets internet access or not depends on what I decide during that thinking speedup...(I can see issues either way, even with read-only access, and yes I intend to be cautious about it...)
The next step would be to spend time on sites like furaffinity asking for volunteers to get used to transformations. If the volunteer freaks out, they remember it as if it were a weird dream...which, given the crowd in question, should not be that difficult to convince them of. (If they freak out too badly i guess they won’t remember it at all; not sure how i’d set a threshold on that). (I expect to see some of them writing up their experiences, too. perhaps complaining that the real deal wasn’t as great as the fantasy...)
-in short, I get data at a relatively low cost.
At some point, I get super-effective healing devices into all the hospitals. I may tamper with the effectiveness of the already existing anasthesia mechanisms, making people feel mere “tiredness” instead of excruciating pain.
At SOME point I start opening two-way travel between the afterlife and the regular world-after opening “cloud and harp heaven”, “barbarian heaven”, and, of course, “hell”-albeit with safewords. And time limits, so nobody winds up accidentally signing up for 1 whole year...
And yes, I do very much expect that people will sign up for that last one.
I assume we’re actually talking NEARLY unlimited power: no actually time-traveling to when you were born and killing yourself just to solve the grandfather paradox once and for all; given information theory, and the power to bypass the “no quantum xerox” limitation, I could effectively reset the relevant light cone and run it under read-only mode to gather information needed to make an afterlife for everyone’s who’s died...if i could also figure out how to pre-prune the run to ensure it winds up at exactly the same branch.
But move one is to hit my thought fast-forward button. Just in case I CAN’T do that.
Then I’d install an afterlife. A lot of humans already believe in one, and it solves the problem of death with minimal interference in the status quo. It’ll probably be mediocre at first, but it WILL be given cable TV. Whether it gets internet access or not depends on what I decide during that thinking speedup...(I can see issues either way, even with read-only access, and yes I intend to be cautious about it...)
The next step would be to spend time on sites like furaffinity asking for volunteers to get used to transformations. If the volunteer freaks out, they remember it as if it were a weird dream...which, given the crowd in question, should not be that difficult to convince them of. (If they freak out too badly i guess they won’t remember it at all; not sure how i’d set a threshold on that). (I expect to see some of them writing up their experiences, too. perhaps complaining that the real deal wasn’t as great as the fantasy...) -in short, I get data at a relatively low cost.
At some point, I get super-effective healing devices into all the hospitals. I may tamper with the effectiveness of the already existing anasthesia mechanisms, making people feel mere “tiredness” instead of excruciating pain.
At SOME point I start opening two-way travel between the afterlife and the regular world-after opening “cloud and harp heaven”, “barbarian heaven”, and, of course, “hell”-albeit with safewords. And time limits, so nobody winds up accidentally signing up for 1 whole year...
And yes, I do very much expect that people will sign up for that last one.