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[Reelya]

So yes, while theoretically you could start with $10,000 in a bank account and use it every single day for 463 days to become a millionaire, but it's probably not realistic to think that someone would sit around with for 15 months diligently not benefiting from their superpower while the money accrues.

Whereas other uses more immediately see results. Using it to brute force getting rich might be difficult, but a single use every few years would keep you forever young, and the occasional carefully worded command to free 1% of all women enslaved by human traffickers, or eliminate 1% of genetic defects in the world could see tremendous effect.

You must be a very impatient person. Only a brainless person would forgo the $1 million in 15 months for a "quick fix" right now, unless there was a better short-term alternative. Sitting on your ass for ~1 year is a small price to pay for being rich (interest will start to really accrue once you have enough anyway), and as you say the rules allow you to change the power at any time.

Get rich first, then forever young. Young and poor isn't a good combo. Plus with tons of money you can also do stuff to indirectly achieve other good goals and "double up" on the extertion of your power. For the youth-thing, it's more effective the older you are, so do that last, and do the things which grow exponentially by themselves first.

[Neonivek]

Heaven forgive someone make more money some other way in the mean time.

Heck take out loans and just increase your wealth... You will pay off your loans faster then the interest will accrue. Even the most rip-offish loan won't touch you.

[Graknorke]

By the way decreasing the carbon dioxide in the air by 1% would... kill all live on earth just about.

Why would it? It's hardly much in the first place.

[Neonivek]

By the way decreasing the carbon dioxide in the air by 1% would... kill all live on earth just about.

Why would it? It's hardly much in the first place.

Atmospheric Pressure.

[Reelya]

lol, this thread is interesting because of the badly-worded wishes.

"decrease average temperature of the world by 1% per day". 1% of what exactly? I would assume that would have to be absolute temperature since you haven't specified whether it's 1% of the value in fahrenheit or celcius.

So, we're talking a ~3 degree celcius drop in average world temperatures every day. Do that for 1 week and 90% of all living things would probably be dead.

[WillowLuman]

By the way decreasing the carbon dioxide in the air by 1% would... kill all live on earth just about.

Why would it? It's hardly much in the first place.

Atmospheric Pressure.

Carbon dioxide makes up a very small percentage of the overall atmosphere. Removing 1% of .04% of the atmosphere would not reduce global atmospheric pressure by much.

Would wording it more like "Sequester 1% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere" work for the rules? If so, it would just be taken up by plants/rocks/water and not change the mass of the system.

[Graknorke]

By the way decreasing the carbon dioxide in the air by 1% would... kill all live on earth just about.

Why would it? It's hardly much in the first place.

Atmospheric Pressure.

You'd only be taking away 0.004% of the atmosphere. I don't think it'd be that catastrophic.

[Caz]

Give me 1% of the universe's knowledge per day with the ability to understand and use it.

[Neonivek]

Give me 1% of the universe's knowledge per day with the ability to understand and use it.

You can't do that because you don't own a percent of the universe's knowledge.

You need to find a way around it... like I did.

[WillowLuman]

Ninjas!

Give me 1% of the universe's knowledge per day with the ability to understand and use it.

Does this work? "Knowledge" is only arguably quantifiable. It's more like a quality, i.e. "You know this thing," where more knowledge would be "You know thing thing, and these other things about this thing."

"Information" is more measurable but then you might get a bunch of junk or noise.

[Radio Controlled]

Hmm. According to wikipedia the 'crude death rate' in 2014 is 7,89 per 1000 people, or 0.789% of people dying (not accounting age and where you live etc). In two weeks you can decrease this to 0.685 (if I'm calculating this correctly).

Hmm. Not great.

However, this would also imply you have a 99.211% of surviving. So, how about we instead word it as 'increase my chance of surviving this year by 1%'.

99.211% *1.01 = 99.211% + 0.992% = 100,203%

And now you're immortal for a year, and can safely start increasing your power.

((manipulating numbers for fun and profit. also pretty sure I made a mistake somewhere in there))

[Caz]

Give me 1% of the universe's knowledge per day with the ability to understand and use it.

You can't do that because you don't own a percent of the universe's knowledge.

You need to find a way around it... like I did.

Do you need 1% of whatever in order to make the wish? No one here owns gravity, entropy, or 1% of the world's wealth to begin with.

[Graknorke]

Give me 1% of the universe's knowledge per day with the ability to understand and use it.

You can't do that because you don't own a percent of the universe's knowledge.

You need to find a way around it... like I did.

Do you need 1% of whatever in order to make the wish? No one here owns gravity, entropy, or 1% of the world's wealth to begin with.

You can't do it because you don't have "the universe's knowledge" in any quantity.
Increasing your own knowledge would work just fine though.

[Reelya]

Hmm. According to wikipedia the 'crude death rate' in 2014 is 7,89 per 1000 people, or 0.789% of people dying (not accounting age and where you live etc). In two weeks you can decrease this to 0.685 (if I'm calculating this correctly).

Hmm. Not great.

However, this would also imply you have a 99.211% of surviving. So, how about we instead word it as 'increase my chance of surviving this year by 1%'.

99.211% *1.01 = 99.211% + 0.992% = 100,203%

And now you're immortal for a year, and can safely start increasing your power.

((manipulating numbers for fun and profit. also pretty sure I made a mistake somewhere in there))

The only problem is assuming you have an averagized "chance" of surviving for a year. It's more likely that either specific people are going to die or not die (in a deterministic universe) or if it's non-deterministic then specific people have a very high chance of dying, and others have very low or no chance of dying. You can't really be sure what your real chance of dying is.

[Caz]

Give me 1% of the universe's knowledge per day with the ability to understand and use it.

You can't do that because you don't own a percent of the universe's knowledge.

You need to find a way around it... like I did.

Do you need 1% of whatever in order to make the wish? No one here owns gravity, entropy, or 1% of the world's wealth to begin with.

You can't do it because you don't have "the universe's knowledge" in any quantity.
Increasing your own knowledge would work just fine though.

Isn't any knowledge part of the knowledge of the universe?