I'd just leave the off button in place.
No more questions about “What would you do if you were suddenly given power over everybody else?”
All this what-if-you-were-god stuff is subconsciously programming us to lean in when given the opportunity to control others.
As AI, surveillance, and extended bureaucracy undermine the concept of “freedom” as an inherently good thing, there will be more and more opportunities to control other people.
Indulging in this kind of question — what would you force all people to do if you could? — is normalizing the actual usage of those systems as they come into existence.
Gravity doesn’t exist. All matter interactions are by electromagnetism and Ver Der Waals forces only.
I was going to say this but for the weak nuclear force.
Space is now a clean vacuum.
Coulomb's Law doesn't apply.
Less power/increased liability for corporations.
Everything the same, but healing fantasies improve your mental health.
... Too meta?
Karma is real.
Colonization never occurs
My rule is: "greed causes incurable ear loss"
Clarification: I didn't say 'hearing'; I said 'ear'.
Nothing is explosively combustible. Gunpowder is inert, oil is just a lubricant. No guns, no gasoline.
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