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What Monkey Paw Wish would you be willing to take? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Lumisal@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For those who don't know, a Monkey Paw Wish is when you get your wish granted, but in an unexpected usually negative way.

Example:

I wish human caused global warming would stop.
It does, but because WW3 leads to Nuclear Winter.

The question here though, is what wish would you be willing to take even though it'll get monkey paw'd?

So basically you don't care if the consequences, or would be willing to take the sacrifice for it.

Others can come up with the negative scenarios if they want and the original wisher can decide if it's still worth it

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[-] moonlight@fedia.io 5 points 3 days ago

I kinda don't hate this, if it's an eternal youth / total invincibility sort of thing, and existing in the vacuum of space isn't uncomfortable.

Actually, with future technology it might be possible to modify our brains to make a sort of shared virtual dream world, with an avatar-style neural connection. Not a bad way to spend eternity.

Also even without brain/body modification, we might be able to train ourselves to hibernate and just wait for a big quantum fluctuation. Assuming the universe doesn't have an end, we would eventually meet intelligent life, even humans, again.

I'm honestly undecided. As a mortal human, I don't really know if I want true immortality or not.

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