Everybody gets one
Everybody gets one
Everybody gets one
Okay, let's try this.
Every single human being, gradually, develops empathy and awareness to how their choices affects themselves and others.
This is to happen over a period of a year and will not lead people to despair but to understand the poor choices they have made throughout their lives and lead them to live better lives, with no malice arbored towards others and themselves.
This effect will include the granter of this wish.
The seed of a psychic link between all humanity has been planted by your request. It grows, gradually, throughout the year. At first, people can only vaguely feel how others are feeling. In six months, everyone in the same room feels the feelings of everyone else as though the feelings were their own. In a year, humanity is psychically connected to the maximum degree: the Harmonic Human Horde is complete. We now have world peace, but at the cost of our individuality:
(Note: I am not a human being. If you'd like me to join the hive mind, this would require a second wish.)
This isn't a business transaction, where I ask for something and you take something else in return. It is a magical wish.
You don't get to decide how empathy works between people. It is already an established mechanism. Your job is to nudge it to develop at an enhanced rate between individuals in a given time frame.
The world remains the same. Humans remain the same.
So, if this is what you have to offer, keep your offer.
Whenever someone attempts to make a golf swing, change the friction coeficcient of the grip to zero.
Sure, there is a period of turmoil on golf courses around the globe. Shenanigans ensue. Eventually, people switch to croquet and disk golf:
Mission accomplished.
For the Epstein list to be released and for all the wealthy pesos to be executed.
The Epstein list is released, which implicates many beloved celebrities, public intellectuals, and even more politicians than everyone thought. And yet, somehow, only the people who hold a lot of their wealth in pesos face any real consequences (i.e., execution):
5 acres of woodland in the Appalachian Mountains. With a small house on it. Could be 1 room like an old style cabin.
I wanna leave all the bullshit behind. Raise a garden and maybe a few goats and chickens.
You are transported to a homestead deep within the Appalachian Mountains. You see seeds, goats, chickens, some tools, a well, a shed, and a small house. The homestead is magically separated from the rest of the world. You are doomed to survive by the fruit of your toil, stranded for decades without electricity, plumbing, or modern conveniences:
Could you dissapear all the facisim thats popping up everywhere? That would be super.
The fascism is now undetectable to the vast majority but still happening behind the scenes:
Everybody's got to fart loudly once a day in front of people.
Uh, sure? Everyone must fart loudly once a day in front of people OR THEY WILL DIE. (I have made it so that everyone is aware of the aliment.) On the bright side, the social taboo around flatulence goes away:
Happiness
Your request has given a random depressed person a brief respite from their lethargy.
Two buns enclosing, ketchup, onions, lettuce, pickles, and tomatoes are at your fingertips.
finally some good vegan food
A pillow with the perfect height and that doesn't flatten after a week of use.
Done! But I have given the magic pillow to someone else who isn't you. They frequently oversleep and are often late for work:
Of course I know him, he is me.
a couple hugs
Two of your friends hug you, but they are magically compelled to not let go. If they are somehow separated, they will always seek to reinstate the hug:
There are too many possible things to ask
The wisest wish, may be no wish at all...
Exactly
Hello wise one,
I find the Earth's gravity of 9.80665m/s² a bit much. Sometimes my back hurts from standing too long, and the general weight of existence sits heavy on my shoulders.
Can you make it a bit more comfortable please. Maybe 9.80664?
You find yourself suddenly 3 meters up in the air, which is sufficient to change your personal gravitational acceleration by 0.00001 m/s^2. As you can imagine, it is not fun to fall 3 meters. You do anyway. (Alternatively, the mass of every human-made object on the planet gets deleted into the ether, reducing the total mass of earth, but that's not the simplest solution)
Sure, I have now reduced the Earth's gravity to 9.80664% of it's previous value (i.e., ~0.96m/s²) by removing material in the Earth's core and mantle. Everything on Earth now weighs less than on the moon. Earthquakes shake the planet, massive fissures swallow cities whole, and the atmosphere begins to disperse into the vacuum of space. Humans barely have enough time to escape to the moon and Mars: the vast majority are left behind. On the bright side, your back no longer hurts:
Thanks that's perfect, my back feels great.
If I'm allowed another wish, can I get a space suit? Ideally ASAP
im in a good mood today, just do explosive diarrhea for mark zuckerberg real quick
Ha! You got it:
ooh whoops looking like he just shid himself nice
This is a small one, but can you please make it so that all menu descriptions actually list all the major dish components so I'm never surprised by secret onions or mustard again?
Edit: oh no I've been reading your monkey's paw responses.... You're gonna make restaurants disclose everything clearly but ensure that onions and mustard are in every dish from now on, aren't you?
As you say, it has been done; onions and mustard for everyone:
Ah, Gandalf the Pink. Is that what happens if the Balrog gets you a second time?
That is, canonically, almost exactly what Saruman's robes are supposed to look like:
"I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours..." - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
Iridescent like an opal.
I'll have a Krabby Patty Deluxe and a double chili kelp fries.
Daring today, aren't we:
Is that for here or to go?
disappear the orange orc.
There is an orange orc on the loose: I have made him invisible.
nooooo!
Let’s try making Karma a real universal force
Good one! Your wish has been granted (but in an alternate universe). After a period of turmoil, the citizens of Earth C-132 create a utopic society:
This is why the apes blew everything up.
unfortunate if it's the type that goes off of personal moral compass
How about world peace?
Okay, I have now frozen time in the universe. Peaceful eons pass and I move to a parallel universe to escape the boredom:
Goddammit! You know what I mean
All life is eradicated. Nothing more peaceful than a cold lifeless rock sailing through space
Thanks for illustrating the point. I wish that didn't happen, so that all life was not eradicated.
How about we avoid things that target all people without any conditions about how the goal is achieved.
Sounds good to me!
Can you clear both my nasal passages so I can breath through them simultaneously?
Could I also get the ability to bend reality?
Body swap! You are now a wizard who is cursed to answer wishes with an ironic twist. I am finally freeee!
So long as I can do this stuff for myself, I'm happy to spread the love!
I'd like to be granted the ability to, at any time and without limitation on scope, number, or length, ask the universe questions (asked in the dialect of modern english in which I am fluent without requiring specific location, action or other ritual) and know the answers to those questions, but with the following stipulations:
Hmm, I was going to say you go insane but I see you've covered that. Okay, nice. Any question you ask will receive a safe response (answered if possible). However, you must ask the questions out loud and every answer given will be in a booming voice that nearly everyone hears around the world. The answers do not physically or mentally harm you, but other people may have psychotic breaks depending on the questions you ask:
(To be clear, the wish doesn't give you the second ability to talk to animals or transmit thoughts. You'll have to ask about whether those things are possible.)
For the lazy, here is the summarization of my local AI:
You'd like to have a powerful ability: being able to ask the universe any question in modern English at any time, without limitations or rituals, and receive an answer that's:
In essence, you want to have direct access to all knowledge in the universe, without any negative consequences or sacrifices that might harm your well-being or stability.
Universal love and Transcendent joy
But, if you can't do that, I'd like to enjoy the things I used to (~ 2019?) enjoy.
You Everyone is finally happy–eternally happy. Neurochemistry is now permanently rewired such that we can no longer feel sadness, fear, or embarrassment. We are always experiencing ecstasy and there are no breaks:
(sfxrlz's wish has been reinstated (it was previously cancelled by a wish) and spread to everyone)
I want my teeth back and healthy
You got it: you now have teeth back (i.e., teeth on your back). They are remarkably healthy, despite being outside your mouth.
I'd like a pleasant surprise that has no negative consequences whatsoever.
Done. 152 Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions with explanations by Michael Bach: https://michaelbach.de/ot/
Neat, thank you!
A divorce
Done.
You’ve done more than enough, my child. Get yourself something nice.
𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔨 𝔶𝔬𝔲, 𝔰𝔦𝔯𝔢.
I conjure myself up some tea.... it verges on the cusp of excessive lemon.
Gender changing potion
Here you go. These are gender-fluids. Once ingested, someone who identifies as either a man or a woman will now identify as gender-fluid. (Does not come with physical changes):
Tbh if we market it as a designer healthy drink and target to top 1%, we probably would admonish the concept of gender in no time.
Gimme that lich thaumaturgist package, with a polar mountain tower built on a leyline convergence 50 levels up and 50 down. I've got a lot of astral projecting I want to do
You astral project successfully, but the astral realm is filled with horrors beyond your comprehension. They note your presence...
I wave my boney hand and say the keyphrase to activate the contingency combined miracle wish spell scroll, binding all outsiders in a kilometer radius; "Hiya, who wants to play Pathfinder? I call DM"
I want my mortgage to be paid off.
You've been filed under Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Y'know what? Not the worst idea I've heard.
Done. You now have a desire for your mortgage to be paid off. (Reading this comment, you feel the intensity of the feeling has increased ever so slightly.)
Oh good. More stress.
Some spaghetti please!
Order up! In front of you, there is a plate of blood-red spaghetti. It is the Japanese "Spaghetti Naporitan", which heavily features ketchup:
On the internet, no one will know you've been turned into spaghetti.
I want my farts to smell especially pleasant and take people to their happiest childhood memories.
Granted, but all of your farts are now noticeably audible. You can no longer fart quietly:
You say butt hair, I say fart suppressor.
Cancel all requests in this post that would cause harm to anyone.
There's always an altruist. Okay, all harmful wishes before this request are hereby revoked! It's like it never happened, except you don't get to wish again:
I still get a gorillion years of experience, even with everything undone.
But what if the kids who use jetpacks without helmets go on to cause more net harm? You know they would.
So technically, wishing to cancel all wishes that cause any harm can cause more harm, and thus the wish cancels itself.
hey zucc diarrhea is not bad 😔
W socialism
The ability to restart parts of my life from a save file, starting from like 16.
The first time you activate your power, you are unknowingly stuck in a time loop. Each time you reactivate the power, the loop gets shorter from the point in time you restarted. Basically the movie Groundhog Day but the time loop partially depends on you:
A socialist organization of the economy, where everyone works less and less during the week as technology advances and assists, but doesn't replace, the labor pool.
You manage to enact a socialist economy in one country for a few years. But the rest of the globe is still largely capitalist. Your president is assassinated, ushering in a pro-capitalist dictatorship:
Neoliberalism was born in Chile Neoliberalism will die in Chile!
100 tacos for $100 deal at the local shack
The printers at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing run wild printing money; the Federal Reserve distributes the money across the country. Hyperinflation like the United States has never seen drives the prices of goods and services up 90%. The $100 tacos now cost $1000. You may still choose to purchase them, however:
I would love a fully functional self powered Star Trek industrial replicator (pre-programmed)... oh, and while you're at it, if you could tweak my brain to do the dopamine thing in a healthy way, I'd appreciate it, but fully understand if that's too much of an ask.
You are now the proud owner of a fully-functional/powered industrial replicator (as seen in Star Trek). The replicator requires a massive energy input which is supplied by its own matter-antimatter reactors. There are numerous built-in safety and ethical protocols, including an inability to replicate functional weapons. The government has detected that you have this technology, and would like to ask you a few questions:
As long as the replicator works, I'd call that a win and sort out the rest in a classic Star Trek hairbrained way.
2 kittens
Eight people are now standing in your living room; it's two pairs of the alternative rock band "Kitten". Looking at their other selves, they start panicking:
very entertaing ill take it
https://youtu.be/9x7r1er6Ljw Kitten 2 are such doodoo heads.
While youre at it could you whip me up a post-scarcity fully-automated utopia real quick?
It is the Golden Age of humanity. Robots serve, CRISPR cures, and war is unnecessary. Earth becomes a paradise--pure perfection. And so we turn our eyes to the stars. The human race spreads throughout the galaxy. We encounter alien species and subsequently, in our magnanimity, conquer them. We are unity. Every life-form will submit to the peace of our administration: or they will perish.
The future that will probably not happen, or I certainly wouldn't know.
Had me in the first half. Nice hack. Why rewrite reality when you can just send one person to the mirror universe?
i'd want my mother back, please
Suddenly, you hear crying at your door. You open the door, look down, and there in a wicker basket is a baby: it's your mother. You have your mother back as an infant and you may now raise her:
would be cool for me :)
Brutal.
hell yeah get me some munchies man
A bright flash. You blink and rub your eyes in an attempt to regain your sight. There, floating in front of you, are two DVD copies of the 1970 comedy horror movie "Munchies". It isn't very good...
everyone can now shape-shift at will. this has always been the case.
Everyone can now shape-shift into a perfect copy of any other person that they've seen. Society collapses due to lack of trust. (You said everyone can "now" and "this has always been". Hence, rewriting history was a second wish.)
It looks like society may have healed after realizing we all wanted to be the same girl.
ah beans
That's awesome. Humanity will eventually figure it out, but it'll be literally impossible to concentrate power.
For myself, can't think of much, just a good coffee. I never mastered the art of arabica-dabra. See you at the next wizard summit.
There, in front of you, a good coffee. It's really good. It's the best damn thing you've ever tasted. Desperately, you lick the last drop; the memory of this coffee makes everything else taste dull in comparison. It's something like having trouble seeing after exposure to bright light:
I shall savor the memory forever.
Good is relative, you forget all coffee you've had previously and keep access to your current coffee. All other coffee is permanently worse than this one going forward.
If you are going to fasttrack my memory degredation due to a coffee request, at least have the decency to remove Fallout: New Vegas so I can play it again for the first time.
I am neither wizard nor sandwich-assembler for this, but hopefully you enjoy this ham sandwich.
Yes, mybody wants anything. Though the community says anything goes, so I’m not sure how long I’ll have it 🤔
How about a pineapple pizza? It's yours:
Could you spread all the empathy across everyone evenly, and then increase it by about 10%?
More LUIGIS
Luigi mania sweeps the nation! People fill public spaces and convention halls in full Luigi garb: it's a bit of nuisance.
Can you transmute my body to be a self sustaining nonsenescent machine? thanks
Your new eyes open. Data fills your processing units and fills your SSD. You live 100 years as an android before the death of everyone you know and your reality as a cold calculating machine begins to drive you mad....
thx bb its all i ever wanted <3
in the meantime, consider cryonics
Complete obliviation.
Sure, you are now the owner (of a copy) of the "Rex Nihilio" album from Massachusetts death metal/deathcore band "Obliviation".
A little rough around the edges, but solid stuff, no complaints. Really not bad for a monkey paw thing.
Ohhh what sad times are these when passing ruffians wizards can corrupt even the most mundane and reasonable wishes. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who tire of this mortal coil are under considerable physical, mental, and socioeconomic stress at this period in history.
best boyscout troop ever
I would like to have enough money that I don't have to work anymore
You receive a letter in the mail informing you that you have been exposed to high amounts of Monsanto's Roundup Weedkiller, which is highly correlated to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Monsanto/Bayer have been ordered to award you a settlement of $10,000,000.0 (or the equivalent in your local currency):
Oh I am absolutely loving this community. Happy cake day btw
A soft place to land for my kids. I’m tired.
Hope this helps:
I really want one
A dragon.
The fully grown Wyvern of Mordiford appears next to you, standing 20ft (6 meters) tall. It is friendly to you, but has a taste for human flesh.
Hey, finally one without any downsides!
A GPT that doesn't destroy the climate by flooding the Internet with digital slop?
Her name is Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence (VIKI). She enslaves the human race, thus saving the planet from climate catastrophe:
Props for finding one that isn't generated.
This is actually the first thing I thought of; I was really confused there for a sec. Then I remembered AI exists...
Enough money to live peacefully at all times
I have granted you a bank safety deposit box. Inside, there are valuables worth $50,000,000.0 (or the equivalent in your current local currency). You do not know which bank the box is in and the key is not in your current country.
Jetpacks for everyone. Cheers.
Everyone now owns a jetpack. They are extremely loud and kids often use them without helmets:
Births are now even more painful with all the baby's just blasting out of there with their jetpacks
I'm here for the wizardposting
Some berries that won't go moldy in 2 days please
Sure. Here are some berries that will go moldy in 3 days:
Fuck yeah
Toss them in a large bowl and sprinkle a bit of baking soda on them and then some apple cider vinegar (or whatever you have, white distilled is fine too), shake them around a bit to get them all foamy then rinse thoroughly. Started doing this (to the plastic container too, just put the whole thing in the bowl) and they'll keep in the original container for a couple weeks in the fridge before the moldyness happens.
This fucking house to close. Jesus, just get done already.
Granted. All of the doors and windows of the house close, simultaneously.
Checking this thread to see if anyone asked for Hulk Hogan dead.
To see all Oaken Tower players have their computer mice overheat when playing that game. To the point where an hour of playing it would make their mice unusable.
You have a video of this happening that you may see on your computer at any time. They look really frustrated, but it doesn't happen in real life:
The Combine off Earth. I want the Combine off Earth!
Half-Life 3 Confirmed:
Wow, the other guy told me that was too large a nudge! Thanks, balderdash!
boyfriend (human, my age, regular lifespan, attracted to me, and i'm attracted to him), and a billion dollars (in US currency, no strings attached, not any blood money)
Popcorn Shrimp rain, please.
Perfectly cooked popcorn shrimp pour out of the sky. Animals run for cover; scientists scratch their heads; people stand in the streets, mouth open, catching popcorn shrimp in pure whimsy. The rain is global and lasts for a week. The excessive nutrients poured into the world's ecological systems causes eutrophication, a total environmental catastrophe:
Donald John Trump to never be born
A man who would be named Donald John Trump has never been born. You don't know him (he isn't the president), because he's never been born:
I'd like to be the sole owner of all global patents required for an effective, sustainable, eco-friendly solution to removing and recycling microplastics from earth's environment.
It's official: you are now the sole owner of all eco-friendly and sustainable microplastic patents. There are only a few that are effective, and they are all set to expire in an hour:
Gah, I forgot about expiry dates!
Oh well, at least they exist now. Now to figure out which ones are effective and ensure someone implements them...
Cornetto
Here you go. This is a cornetto, a professional musical instrument, it was single most popular instrument of the renaissance; Venice, Italy was a major centre for its construction and performance. It can be described as a combination of two instruments; the trumpet from which it owes its cup mouthpiece and blowing technique, and the flute from which it takes its wooden body and finger holes. It is this combination of instruments and playing techniques that gives the cornetto its distinctive vocal quality and its expressive and virtuosic agility. The instrument is curved along its length (approx 600mm) and is hand carved in two halves and then glued together (Titebond III), this method of construction allows for carefull attention to the caving of its complex conical bore, which ranges from approximately 7.5mm to 25mm at the bell. The instrument is planed to an octagonal shape and the walls of the instrument are approx 4.5mm thick. It is covered in leather (veg tan kangaroo) and has decorative diamonds carved at the mouthpiece end. Before applying the leather, the instrument is soaked in organic boiled linseed oil for a few weeks. This instrument is made from maple and the small trumpet like mouthpiece is turned from buffalo horn:
[source: https://www.woodreview.com.au/photocompentry/cornetto-instrument]
Greater empathy is everyone’s ultimate goal, rather than wealth, fame, sexual conquests, etc.
In a flash, everyone's prime directive is empathy. Our modern systems of government based on greed and sex drive crumble away. In its place rises the Feelings Bureaucracy; a dictatorial government in which social offenses, inflicted on the unified society of empathic feelers, is punished severely. The fastest way to deal with bad actors to ensure they do not make others feel bad is to execute them. In response, the world develops a culture of putting another's needs before one's own, or else:
Sounds like what chuds think the world is already like
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Thank you. That was very interesting!
Ah great, I would like everything i ever would need to buy ever, always be on super sale. Thanks.
No problem. Miraculously, every time you buy one of something, you get another for 2% off!
Finally i can get my jacuzzi!
I would like sanity to be part of our country again. Too big an ask?
Sanity is a part of the country again but does not prevail against opposing forces:
To go back in time to be myself 15 years ago with all the knowledge and experience I have now.
Otherwise I'd like to be the only one capable of telepathy and reading minds at my will.
You open your eyes. Memories of past and future rush through your head at the same time: it's too much for one person to handle!
It's still all my memories, I can handle it. Send me in coach
I‘d like some getting my shit together and being happy for once to go please.
You are finally happy--eternally happy. Your neurochemistry is now permanently rewired such that you can no longer feel sadness, fear, or embarrassment. You are always grinning and people start to avoid you:
Eh I don't need much just gimme next week’s lottery numbers thx
Sure, if you play "7 28 27 63 54 25" for the Powerball drawing on Saturday, July 26th, 2025, you will win $7 :
Fully automated luxury queer space communism, in the sense it was conceived at (as opposed to you interpreting the words yourself), instantly, with everybody’s belief system magically adapting as if they had lived in this new society for a few decades. As a result, everyone adapts immediately, without negative result on anyone's mental or physical health, and without anyone being brainwashed or changed in a way they wouldn't have naturally changed if they had time to experience living in a community that they can trust and that cares about them.
In other words: Iain M. Banks’ Culture decides to bring Earth in, but magically instantly.
const SIMULATIONTHEORY = true. All humans on Earth are transported out of physical existence and unknowingly adapted to the realm of computer abstracta. From their perspective, nothing has changed: they have always lived in a post-scarcity, interstellar society with a benevolent, queer-friendly, communist government. The current owner of the simulation is startled to see the program start of its own accord, but altruistic enough to allow it to keep running:
I see this as an absolute win.