u/HimikoTogaFromUSSR

Imagine a criminal who looks like walking and talking juicy beefsteak

>Not someone, something

No, someone. The idea is that they would look and smell so tasty that other people would risk to be seduced to engage in cannibalism

>Sounds like this could lead to a perpetual cycle of crime unless we also decriminalize cannibalism.

Or make special exception for walking beefsteaks (considering they are made out of people who normally would be executed anyway)

Especially for the ones who can't shut up talking about STEM

Options:

1. You get 5 million dollars, but from now you will be enjoying hurting innocent people (and not in BDSM way)

2. You get 5 million dollars, but now you're in the same boat as Mr. Epstein, you will start lusting for kids.

3)You turn down the offer. You don't get the money, but at the least you stay the way you're now

>Can I control the urges and simple not do that?

Yes, at the least in theory

P.S. All options are mutually exclusive, you can't choose number 1 and number 2 at the same time

Yes, we have Wayback Archive, but it just gives us static snapshots frozen in time. But using such website was interactive experience and the closest thing that can recreate such experience is a videogame.

P.S. Also, maybe we could create such interactive experience for survivors too, if there were significant shifts in their digital culture. Imagine a simulator of early Reddit, for example

Before you decide, be warned that ...

1.About 90% of your past lives happened during the Stone Age. The rest are mainly about you being a serf or someone's slave.

2.You will unlock new skills, including (but not limited to) being able to understand new languages (who nobody can speak today) or knowing how to properly cook a human (you were not a stranger to cannibalism)

3.You will also unlock all trauma. You have seen some serious shit during your past lives.

4.Memories about your thoughts, attitudes and actions in your past lives will clash with your current self-image. You have done some very strange and/or morally questionable things, at the least from POV of modern sensibilities

>Why is this even a question? Lol. I unlock nearly useless skills and the trade-off is trauma and a worse self-image? How is it supposed to be worth it?

Imagine being a hero of thousand of stories. You saw all kinds of friends, all kinds of love and betrayal, all kinds of drama. Some lives were short and passionate, while other ones were long and boring. You died young, you died old. You were compassionate, you were cruel.

Each game would be full of bad (or at the very best, controversial or good-for-niche-only) design decisions, to make aspiring game developers experience how such decisions affect gameplay. For example, there could be RPGs that would show different ways balance between different races, artifacts, etc can be broken

P.S.

>No need, plenty out there to choose from already

There are many bad games, but the games I propose would be constructed to drive home particular points about different (and wrong) game-development decisions in the most clear-cut way possible and as fast as possible (instead of 10 hours later)

You would be given a machine that would read your mind when you're asleep and connect you to Internet, so you would be able to do office work remotely from your bed. You would be compensated as if you were doing the same remote office work, but in awaken state. The machine would induce a lucid dream, so you would be aware that you're dreaming

In country A many regulations are light or non-existent. Thanks to lack of regulations a small group of friends can open a new business in their garage. Small businesses are booming, there are lots of jobs, although worker safety is neglected (along with quality and safety of produced goods)

In country B small businesses are regulated out of existence. There are so many regulations that only big businesses survive, as they can bear weight of regulations thanks to economies of scale. It is hard to find a job, but jobs are very safe and goods are top notch thanks to regulations

They would explain why they prerfer the old way of doing things and how they navigate problems of the old ways

We live in a simulation and you were contacted by its admin. He randomly chose you to make a choice between two events happening:

1.Researchers find a way to keep people alive until they are 150 years old. But the method is extremely expensive, only billionaires are able to afford it. And no, it won't become cheap enough for non-billionaires, at the least in your lifetime. The treatement is able to keep anyone below 150 years age in good health, even if previously their body was falling apart from old age.

2.Adolf Hitler is brought back to life, in good health and with all his memories intact

For example, maybe in order to finish current level you need help of a friendly NPC companion. But initially the NPC lacks any AI code, it doesn't do anything, sitting around like a lifeless doll. But if you write code for the NPC it can become useful, with more advanced code being more helpful

Or maybe there is very limited amount of memory available for storing character-related data. So you need to code size of variables, with bigger size of one thing leaving smaller room for other things. Like, do you want to have bigger max inventory size? Great, but you need to sacrifice something, like by using lower max level for your character

A commitment device at its extreme, with your life at stake

P.S. The assumption is that in the first case you wouldn't just get conscripted, but sent to fight in a war

P.P.S. No real threat, you would be sent to fight for glory of your country

P.S. >What's your beef with overweight people

I have no beef with them, I'm one of them and running out of ideas how to lose weight (because it's hard to do when you're depressed)

Modern parents worry a lot about bad influences on their kids (including, but not limited to, consumption of alcohol, recreational drug use, use of profanities). In theory, as a parent you can police what movies your kid is allowed to watch and videogames to play. But such measures don't go far enough. What is the point of protecting your kid from videogames and movies if they can (and will) get bad influences in the real life, like seeing as a homeless person shoots up drugs or hearing as a plumber is swearing while trying to unclog your toilet? Not to mention even parents and teachers can be bad influence sometimes, as in the end they are flawed human beings.

So, what if we placed each kid into a virtual reality that imitates pefrect life with perfect people, where bots play roles of perfect adults and even classmates (with each kid being the only human in their simulation)? Imagine a world where are no homeless people, people never swear, drink alcohol or consume recreational drugs and classmates never bully. And then kids would get disconnected when they turn 18-years old

Country A follows "hype and bust" path in its development. When a new technology emerges it becomes overhyped as the greatest invention ever and lots of money get invested into it without any sense of restraint, which causes an economic boom. But then the technology fails to deliever on such overinflated promises, economic bubble bursts and everyone becomes overly cynical, making the technology need to prove that it isn't just a complete fraud and there is still something good about it.

Country B follows "slow and steady" path in its development, both in technology and economy. Sometimes it can appear that country B lags behind country A, but this happens during yet another "hype" cycle, when country A overinvests into a new shiny technology. In the long run both countries achieve the same level of economic prosperity and technology. Technology news are boring in country B though, mainly written for experts in their relevant fields

Like "His penis is 75% horsedick long"