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[NAV]

Increase time since the big bang by 1%. Enjoy new hovercar and/or post-apocalyptic wasteland.

[King Kravoka]

Increase time since the big bang by 1%. Enjoy new hovercar and/or post-apocalyptic wasteland.

That would be at least a few million years. Also you would probably be affected.

[Reelya]

Increase time since the big bang by 1%. Enjoy new hovercar and/or post-apocalyptic wasteland.

That wouldn't work. It would immediately shift to some future point, but all the people alive would have memories consistent with time not shifting (people would remember who invented the hovercars etc).

[Levi]

Sticking with the 1% money increase value per day starting at 1000 still seems sanest to me.  In four years you could pretty much do anything you wanted.  In 6 years you'd be making 28 billion dollars per day.  Just got to make sure you specify value, so you don't cause inflation, and you'd probably be good.  I could probably solve all the worlds problems with 28 billion per day.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Increase time since the big bang by 1%. Enjoy new hovercar and/or post-apocalyptic wasteland.

That wouldn't work. It would immediately shift to some future point, but all the people alive would have memories consistent with time not shifting (people would remember who invented the hovercars etc).

That and who's to say the earth is in the same part of the year after the skip

[Andrew425]

/I've sometimes thought of an alternative version of this if you only had 100% to give out. What would you do? What if you could only apply it to yourself? (10% smarter, 10% better looking, 56% stronger... etc)

Going to infinity is fun and all but I think it's a bit more interesting if you're constrained to a finite percentage.

[Helgoland]

How to deal with genie:
1) Identify what you want to change.
2) Define function that measures how good the situation is according to the definition from 1).
3) Wish for 1% increase of function's value.

It's like wishing for HDI increase, but Jerkass Genie-proof and more general.

Sticking with the 1% money increase value per day starting at 1000 still seems sanest to me.  In four years you could pretty much do anything you wanted.  In 6 years you'd be making 28 billion dollars per day.  Just got to make sure you specify value, so you don't cause inflation, and you'd probably be good.  I could probably solve all the worlds problems with 28 billion per day.

Inflation, mate.

[Bohandas]

Sticking with the 1% money increase value per day starting at 1000 still seems sanest to me.  In four years you could pretty much do anything you wanted.  In 6 years you'd be making 28 billion dollars per day.  Just got to make sure you specify value, so you don't cause inflation, and you'd probably be good.  I could probably solve all the worlds problems with 28 billion per day.

Inflation, mate.

That's why he went out of his way to specify "value" rather than "quantity", as in getting more for the same amount.

Of course, actually increasing the quantity of money probably would probably wouldn't do much either provided that no one knew about it.

[On a semi-related note, the only person harmed by counterfeit money is the poor schmuck who both realises that it's not real AND turns it in to the authorities (the same goes for passing off fool's gold as real gold)]

[Zrk2]

So this is just the "I love exponential relations" thread?

[Karkov]

Wouldn't it be logarithmic?  Unless you were solely increasing the percentage your power increased by every day.

[Graknorke]

Of course, actually increasing the quantity of money probably would probably wouldn't do much either provided that no one knew about it.

The market forces can smell the guilt on your breath~

[Neonivek]

Whelp so I am glad I found out how to obtain super slightly less then 1% of the world's cash.

[MDFification]

Sticking with the 1% money increase value per day starting at 1000 still seems sanest to me.  In four years you could pretty much do anything you wanted.  In 6 years you'd be making 28 billion dollars per day.  Just got to make sure you specify value, so you don't cause inflation, and you'd probably be good.  I could probably solve all the worlds problems with 28 billion per day.

Inflation, mate.

That's why he went out of his way to specify "value" rather than "quantity", as in getting more for the same amount.

Of course, actually increasing the quantity of money probably would probably wouldn't do much either provided that no one knew about it.

[On a semi-related note, the only person harmed by counterfeit money is the poor schmuck who both realises that it's not real AND turns it in to the authorities (the same goes for passing off fool's gold as real gold)]

Well, them and everyone else who uses that currency because the counterfeit money decreases the comparative value of their money. One guy isn't going to have a noticeable affect on the system, but they add up.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

So this is just the "I love exponential relations" thread?

Wouldn't it be logarithmic?  Unless you were solely increasing the percentage your power increased by every day.

Well I've been studying for two math class finals this week and these are the two things I last wanted to hear mentioned on bay12, one of the more relaxing things in my life..... Even worse you both heat one math class each

I'm done with this thread for awhile now

[Leafsnail]

It is exponential, if you increase something for N days you'll end up with that thing 1.01^N times bigger than it was before.  A logarithmic power would be strange to say the least, but maybe interesting (for a start you'd only be able to apply it to unitless values like ratios).