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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #135 on: December 11, 2014, 09:31:05 am »

Shitty waste product? It's frigging fluid gold mate. </sarcasm>
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #136 on: December 11, 2014, 09:33:36 am »

I meant by-product. I'm not sure is waste product is a synonym, if not then oops.
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #137 on: December 11, 2014, 10:10:16 am »

At first I thought I'd wish for a decrease of the worl Gini coefficient by 1% by day but then I figured that if I decrease the 1000th root of the Gini coefficient, I get a much more dramatic effect.
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #138 on: December 11, 2014, 10:25:07 am »

I meant by-product. I'm not sure is waste product is a synonym, if not then oops.
No, it's not that either. Waste and by-products get thrown out.
They grow fake-corn specifically to make 'filler' with no nutritional values at all just to pad out how big a meal looks, similar to padding out an essay by adding extra long words.
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #139 on: December 11, 2014, 10:40:42 am »

At first I thought I'd wish for a decrease of the worl Gini coefficient by 1% by day but then I figured that if I decrease the 1000th root of the Gini coefficient, I get a much more dramatic effect.
Or you fuck up mathematics. One or the other.

I meant by-product. I'm not sure is waste product is a synonym, if not then oops.
No, it's not that either. Waste and by-products get thrown out.
They grow fake-corn specifically to make 'filler' with no nutritional values at all just to pad out how big a meal looks, similar to padding out an essay by adding extra long words.
I recall being told that corn syrup, at least originally, was just a way to get something from what would otherwise be waste, rather than setting out with the intention of producing it.
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #140 on: December 11, 2014, 10:47:59 am »

Increase toady's coding speed by 1%.

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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #141 on: December 11, 2014, 10:49:26 am »

And to accompany it, increase Tarn and Zach Adam's bug finding speed by 1%

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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #142 on: December 11, 2014, 10:52:40 am »

...Increase toady's lifespan by 1%?
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #143 on: December 11, 2014, 11:24:28 am »

Increase Toady by 1%.
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #144 on: December 11, 2014, 11:37:51 am »

Decrease entropy by 1%.

Seriously is this thread secretly the doom the universe thread?
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Joke answer- increase the amount of hydrogen in the sun by 1%


Real answer- increase amount of world total food production per farm by one percent
That would add quite a bit of food into the basket right?

You are aware we make enough food RIGHT NOW to feed the world right?

Yes but the richer nations eat it all, if more food existed it would be cheaper and therefore be easier for the poor to get
That's not how food works.


I think what people don't realize when they hear the phrase "We already produce enough food to feed the world" is that much of what we grow nowadays, while technically "food," is nothing more than a step in the industrial chain. For example, the corn that we mostly grow for corn syrup isn't exactly edible, but is still "corn" and therefore counted on those little statistical charts that easily make modern countries look like giant douches.

i know that but still if countries that grow rice (which is eaten by people and not just thrown into machines to make stuff for soda, most of the time) and they get 1% more production of rice, potatoes, beets (fuel i guess would be affected slightly), sugar cane (also affect fuel), wheat, etc


edible food would be effected and if a nation produced 100 tons of rice now it produces 101 tons of rice (and rice goes a long way)
i think it would have a significant impact
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #145 on: December 11, 2014, 11:51:58 am »

Decrease the overall wealth disparity by 1% daily?
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #146 on: December 11, 2014, 01:21:42 pm »

Kill 1% of all sapient life in the universe? If exactly 1% of the human race doesn't drop dead, you've just proved the existence of aliens. And murdered a bunch of people, but hey, SCIENCE!
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #147 on: December 11, 2014, 02:43:06 pm »

So I've read through the thread and I've been thinking of all the ways that a jerkass genie could spoil some of these changes people are requesting. In order to prevent this, I've come up with some basic rules to maximize your power's efficiency while avoiding all jerkass genie messing up.

1) Always increase, never decrease.
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2) Work with the largest number possible.
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3) Work with the smallest group possible.
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4) Work with things that have an absolute maximum whenever possible
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Following these laws we can see that the best thing to do would be to pick a single aspect that is tied to a large group but is still non-zero (such as the overall % of citizens in a country to live to be over 100). After that we would rapidly focus on increasing that aspect until it hit its maximum (100%). After that we would then add one more group at a time, waiting for them to be maximized before adding another (which would take less and less time with each already maximized group you have). This would get maximum utility out of our power while locking down pretty much anything a jerkass genie could pull.

Of course if we have a friendly genie then why not go for the Human Development Index? That lets you simultaneously hit standards of living, life expectancy, and education.

Kill 1% of all sapient life in the universe? If exactly 1% of the human race doesn't drop dead, you've just proved the existence of aliens. And murdered a bunch of people, but hey, SCIENCE!
Or there is enough other sapients out there that you wipe out the entire human race, yourself included. :P
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #148 on: December 11, 2014, 03:12:36 pm »

Well, now we genetically modify corn strands specifically so that they can be refined into the stuff.
That's a common way things go. Petroleum was originally a waste product too, as it was too volatile for 19th century lamps and stuff. The combustion engine was an attempt to give it a commerical use. Later, people started converting other useful stuff into the same product artificially. It just means the concept of "waste product" can change, new uses are thought up and the economics changes as a result.

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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #149 on: December 11, 2014, 03:26:21 pm »

Increase by 1% the amount of species known to science, eventually you will have to find aliens after Earths biosphere is fully mapped.
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