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Author Topic: The 1 percent per day superpower  (Read 23870 times)

Cryxis, Prince of Doom

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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #255 on: February 17, 2015, 12:54:21 pm »

Maybe decress everyone's addiction to drugs by 1%?
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #256 on: February 17, 2015, 01:38:37 pm »

At least 1% of drug addicts is less than 1% of everyone. And that's about as optimistic as it gets when you're removing people.
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #257 on: February 17, 2015, 01:42:20 pm »

No. 100% of humans are addicted to dopamine. When you shoot drugs, you arent usually feeling "good" because of the drug, so much as the drug's influence on dopamine levels. (Some caveats apply-- some drugs simulate dopamine in the brain.)

Just like with genies, be careful what you wish for.

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Cryxis, Prince of Doom

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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #258 on: February 17, 2015, 01:52:12 pm »

(( this power doesn't work when applied to zero :p ))
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #259 on: February 17, 2015, 02:03:41 pm »

No. 100% of humans are addicted to dopamine. When you shoot drugs, you arent usually feeling "good" because of the drug, so much as the drug's influence on dopamine levels. (Some caveats apply-- some drugs simulate dopamine in the brain.)

Inaccurate. Drugs - legal or illegal - do not, generally, work directly. Caffeine for example, does cause an increase in cAMP levels (among others, the stimulatory effect is something else) - but it does so by inhibiting the natural mechanism by which it is degradated. Which you have mentioned, but implied it's a rare thing.

It's the *primary* way drugs work - it doesn't matter if it's stimulation of synthesis, inhibition of degradation, increase in sensitivity to the target chemical or whatever. You could actually inject pure Dopamine, it's available commercially, though presumably not to anyone who walks in and demands it.

Neurochemistry is also *far* more complex than loldopamine. Dopamine is responsible for *seeking out* the stimulus, primarily, which is not the same thing as the stimulus being pleasurable.

And while we're at it, a lot of drugs aren't even dopaminergics - weed, notably, is a serotonergic, so is pretty much most of psychedelics. LSD is both dopaminergic and serotonergic, but it's very rare in that regard.

Typical dopaminergics, such as meth or cocaine, are indeed highly addictive, but so are opiates - which are not dopaminergics.
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #260 on: February 17, 2015, 04:47:09 pm »

Weed is serotonergic? I thought THC acted as a partial agonist on the various cannabinoid receptors...
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #261 on: February 17, 2015, 04:58:33 pm »

The jerkass genie would ignore thermodynamics.

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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #262 on: February 17, 2015, 05:10:41 pm »

Weed is serotonergic? I thought THC acted as a partial agonist on the various cannabinoid receptors...

Yeah, I stand corrected. There's a lot of misinformation on that and my fact-checking 1337 skillz failed me. As far as the better-known ones go, mescaline and psilocybin are serotonergics.
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #263 on: February 17, 2015, 05:16:14 pm »

Increase by 1% the distribution of intelligent unique species life in the solar system;
Increase by 1% the amount of lithium currently available on Earth (rechargeable batteries for everyone!)
Increase by 1% the amount of energy produced by solar power
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #264 on: February 17, 2015, 07:25:40 pm »

Increase by 1% the amount of lithium currently available on Earth (rechargeable batteries for everyone!)

‼lithium‼ for all!
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #265 on: February 17, 2015, 07:36:12 pm »

Decrease the amount of territory IS holds by 1% every day.
Decrease the amount of members of IS by 1% every day.
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #266 on: February 17, 2015, 08:26:52 pm »

Depends who you define as members of IS and what you define as IS territory doesn't it? I'm sure that depending who you ask you could well be killing a sizeable chunk of Earth's population every day.
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Cryxis, Prince of Doom

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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #267 on: February 17, 2015, 09:37:21 pm »

Those who proclaim themselves as members
Territory that they control as a group
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #268 on: February 17, 2015, 10:44:11 pm »

Increase the amount of statistical error in scientific experiments by 1% (for the lulz)
Increase the amount of enlightened people in the world by 1%
Increase the mass of the sun by 1% (Let them hate me, as long as they fear me)

Decrease the amount of harmful genetic mutations in humans by 1% (or, increase the amount of useful genetic mutations by 1%)

Here's a thought, the difference between a chimp's genome and a human's genome is about 1% but this results in an enormous difference in intellect. What if you increase that gap by 1% in a "positive" direction?
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Re: The 1 percent per day superpower
« Reply #269 on: February 18, 2015, 12:17:11 am »

Increase the amount of enlightened people in the world by 1%

But what are they enlightened by?
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