What If? You are granted these powers. What do you do?

[bintananth]

ROB has decided to gift you nearly unlimited power. You can do the following just by willing it to happen:

- change the properties of almost any object within one light-second of where you currently are provided the end result obeys the laws of physics.
- change probabilities so a random event has a specific desired outcome.

But there are limits to this power:

- your powers can not directly alter any multicellular living organism in any way except to relocate it to the nearest safe suitable location it if it must be moved to make space for what you will into existence.
- your powers can not change any record or document like votes, laws, ledgers, books, audio, video, &c
- the matter and energy for what you wish to create will be drawn from the Earth itself.
- the matter and energy for what you wish to destroy will be dispersed throughout the Earth itself.

What would you do with these powers?

Some examples involving a bar of gold:

Spoiler

You will one to appear on your dining room table: One is created from the gold scattered throughout the Earth.

You will a specific bar of gold to appear on your dining room table: It is teleported to your dining room table.

You will one to disappear from from your dining room table: It vanishes and the gold is scattered throughout the Earth.

You will it to become a gold statue: It becomes a gold statue.

You will it to become liquid: It warms up and melts.

You will it to become a gas: It warms up more and boils.

 

[Crazysaneman]

Good concept.
-First I would will all fissionable materials except that used in power generation and all nuclear byproducts created by that nuclear power on the planet to be broken down into their base atoms and reformed into usable fuel as needed, or turning it into water and base safe elements to replenish lakes and rivers and worn away coral reefs and shorelines. Boom no more nuclear threat.
-Second I would create renewable solar panels that automatically repair. Since there is no limit to my power outside of the specified limitations this would only require a thought at the beginning of the day to do.
-Third I would replenish the ozone layer and create stable atmospheric conditions conducive to stable weather worldwide, no more hurricanes or wildfires.
-Fourth I would create a new kind of fertilizer that is non explosive and would increase crop health and yield and improve crop viability in arid environments.
-Fifth I would end strip mining all together. Every element we need to move forward into the future I can will into being by simply destroying sand and granite and using their base atoms to form whatever is needed.
-Sixth I would make small plays for money over time using my powers to create new efficient inventions and ideas that can be patented and use them to manipulate the course of humanity towards a more enlightened state, with new medicines, electronics etc... to gain a mass of wealth and pass it around. Increased technology in food production, power generation and space travel leads us to a new dawn of humanity.
-Finally I would manipulate probability to prevent nuke plants from going critical, prevent the weather from shifting, prevent major earthquakes and other natural disasters, cancer rates etc... you get the idea. Everything bad gets probability-d out of existence or marginalized to the point where they are insignificant.

*Edit*
Given my godlike powers, I am taking for granted that god like prescience granted by unlimited probability manipulation functionally makes me immortal as far as unnatural deaths from shootings/sickness/stabbings/plots etc... Immortality is not a goal, but I think could be achieved. That would be horrible though. Then you would have to manipulate birthrates, governments, etc... freedom and prosperity not secret tyrants is important to me.

I would do this instead of using gold because pulling gold from the ground can create pockets of empty air and I don't want to create sinkholes. Also, that much gold being placed into circulation could destabilize economies.

The endgame is peace and harmony here, an end to the nuclear threat, homelessness, and hunger/thirst. If given cosmic power my views go from personal survival to survival of the species.

 

[Emperor Tippy]

I turn a chunk of matter into nanites programmed to rebuild my body into physical perfection without killing me.

I get a computer with an RNG program and basically play infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters. What is the probability that random RNG will result in the program spitting out a general solution to Navier-Stokes? Because so long as the answer is anything above absolute zero then I can make it happen right now

What to know the current location of the Most Wanted list? No problem, just alter the probabilities to get that result.

Next weeks winning lotto numbers? What the price of various stocks will be at market close on X day? No problem.

 

[bintananth]

@Crazysaneman:

Interesting, but manipulating probability the way you mentined just broke nuclear power.

You want the reactor to be critical because you can't generate power if it's not. What you don't want is prompt critical because that's when things go boom in very destructive ways.

You also can't probability away cancer because you'd be directly altering a multicellular lifeform.

@Emperor Tippy:

Next week's winning lotto numbers was one of the first things I thought of but I'd be subtle about it and stick to a one dollar scratch off when I forgot my wallet, with the dollar being the nearest one laying on the ground no one has found yet.

 

[Crazysaneman]

@Crazysaneman:

Interesting, but manipulating probability the way you mentined just broke nuclear power.

You want the reactor to be critical because you can't generate power if it's not. What you don't want is prompt critical because that's when things go boom in very destructive ways.

You also can't probability away cancer because you'd be directly altering a multicellular lifeform.

To your first point, prevent the nuke from going critical specifically to prevent catastrophic failure, not normal function.

To your second point, I disagree, I'm not altering a multicellular lifeform, I'm PREVENTING the formation of cellular runaway from outside the body. Whatever is CAUSING the cancer (sun, smoking, etc...) simply STOPS causing cancer. This would have no effect on cancer ALREADY in motion, hence the medical advancements.

 

[bintananth]

To your first point, prevent the nuke from going critical specifically to prevent catastrophic failure, not normal function.

To your second point, I disagree, I'm not altering a multicellular lifeform, I'm PREVENTING the formation of cellular runaway from outside the body. Whatever is CAUSING the cancer (sun, smoking, etc...) simply STOPS causing cancer. This would have no effect on cancer ALREADY in motion, hence the medical advancements.

Critical means the fission is self-sustaining and controllable. Prompt critical means that the fission is uncontrolled and will continue until it's run its course no matter what you do. It also means that a mushroom cloud larger than the one observed in Japan when Yamato's magazine exploded while she was sinking just happened. One of the Japanese survivors of that mission estimated that the conventional explosives in the magazine produced a 6km tall mushroom cloud.

As for cancer: you can not stop errors in cell division from occurring and your desired result must obey the the laws of physics. You can not prevent someone who just drank methanol from going blind.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Hmm... There appears to be no tonnage limit and no problem with selectively moving stuff if it's within a light second. Note that one light-second is one heck of a short distance by spacial terms, the sun is 499 light seconds aware, so we're going to be somewhat limited. Even many satellites are over a light second away. We're not going to be able to move much. Most stuff will have to be built on earth. Even a geosynchronous orbit is about a quarter-light second so you can see how utterly close that is. We can't even affect the moon until we get into space proper.

So the goal is to expand to other planets.

First, demonstrate I can teleport objects to the relevant authorities. If it still exists (most don't) collect on whatever magic/supernatural power contests are currently running for prestige and pocket change.

Invest earnings into life-extension for myself. I'm the most valuable person in the world right now.

Arrange for multiple independent teams, ideally in independent countries, to verify plans. Once multiple independent teams have confirmed it's a good idea, proceed with plan at each stage. We don't need to accidentally destabilize Earth's orbit by moving too much.

Teleport in chunks of asteroid and comets as needed. That will only work when objects of interest are close, so arrange for massive observation of space and space stations in place so I can move to them. Since I don't have an effective mass limit, I may need to arrange for daisy-chains of stations so I can move rapidly between them and teleport asteroids and comets daisy-chain 1 light-second at a time to get them into position. I can't teleport myself or other humans, but I can teleport hydrogen directly into fuel tanks for high-speed travel at max speed.

Have teams create segments of a space station, as large as can be reasonably constructed on earth. This is going to require waiting for asteroids and comets to move into 1-light-second range, which isn't common, so promote tracking every last blob in the solar system and building aforementioned daisy-chain to move them one lightsecond at a time into orbit.

Teleport Space-Station segments into space as needed.

Teleport fuel into the rocket as needed to get it into space and get vetted construction workers to assemble the chunks as needed. Send scientists and whatever else is required as needed.

Arrange for the creation of a Lunar space base. I don't need to build it myself though I'll teleport in nearby asteroids for materials as needed using the daisy-chain.

Teleport fuel into the rocket as needed to get it into space and get colonists on the moon.

Even the moon is 1.28 light-seconds average, so we can't touch it yet. Teleport the base to orbit, then alter its trajectory at the moon as needed. Once that's done, travel into orbit so that my range is effectively 21LS from Earth, then transport pre-built modules to the moon as needed.

We can't fix Mars... yet. It needs a stable atmosphere and it's well out of range.

However, once you're in orbit, you're halfway to everywhere else. Teleport fuel as needed to the space stations, then send them to mars to assemble a colony. Once a daisy-chain of stations is assembled, travel to Mars and beyond.

Teleport nickel-iron asteroids into Mars orbit using the daisy-chain.

Replace Mars' core with nickel-iron to create a planetary magnetic field, teleport its core into orbit to produce a decent-sized moon.

Reeee at the scientists who probably didn't get it right the first time and redo as needed to give Mars a planetary magnetic field. Look, this is uncharted and hideously complex work, it probably won't go right the first time.

Teleport comets as needed to give Mars at atmosphere once it has a magnetic field to contain said atmosphere.

Have rocket scientists design cloud cities for Venus. Alternately, have them draw up plans for how Venus might be terraformed by teleporting greenhouse gasses out of it depending on prevailing models. Teleport out greenhouse gasses

Repeat Martian plan with Venus. Reeee at scientists who didn't get it right and redo until Venus is inhabitable.

Construct further Daisy-Chains of stations to the Oort cloud until I can access comets a needed.

Begin construction of long-range probes, and then ships, to reach other solar systems. These are vastly outside my reach telekinetically but once you're in orbit, you're halfway, there, especially if I can use daisy-chains to get a full load of and move myself at top speed using max fuel along the way. I can always teleport fuel in as long as it's within a light second, so build fuel-stations every light second. Spend time moving massive, quadrillion-ton fuel canisters back and forth (after teleporting comets to refinery stations we teleported in to make said fuel, of course) to ensure rockets have massive fuel supplies in place to let them burn at 1G for long distances.

At 1G, We're looking at three and a half years to reach Alpha Centauri. However as they slowly orbit, the daisy-chain will make other systems that are further away accessible too.

The expansion will continue until I die of old age, which will be as long as the finest medicine humanity can possibly create given I'm the single most valuable person on earth at this point and I began pouring billions into life-extension early on. If things go well, early investments into life extension pay off and we get this rate of expansion for 100-150 years. If things go exceptionally well, we figure out centuries-to-immortality but I won't count on that. If not, spend my last years building infrastructure to make expansion easier once I'm gone. Arrange for a statue of myself at the vastest size possible to be built because I still have an ego.

 

[King Arts]

So the first power is a more broken version of alchemy from full metal alchemist? I can't make something from nothing but I can change it? The second one, could I go into a Casino and just make probability manipulation have it so that the slot machine always gives me the jackpot, or can I make it so that any gun fired at me will misfire and either blow up to hurt the bad guy or not work at all?

 

[bintananth]

Hmm... There appears to be no tonnage limit and no problem with selectively moving stuff if it's within a light second. Note that one light-second is one heck of a short distance by spacial terms, the sun is 499 light seconds aware, so we're going to be somewhat limited. Even many satellites are over a light second away. We're not going to be able to move much. Most stuff will have to be built on earth. Even a geosynchronous orbit is about a quarter-light second so you can see how utterly close that is. We can't even affect the moon until we get into space proper.

So the goal is to expand to other planets.

First, demonstrate I can teleport objects to the relevant authorities. If it still exists (most don't) collect on whatever magic/supernatural power contests are currently running for prestige and pocket change.

Invest earnings into life-extension for myself. I'm the most valuable person in the world right now.

Arrange for multiple independent teams, ideally in independent countries, to verify plans. Once multiple independent teams have confirmed it's a good idea, proceed with plan at each stage. We don't need to accidentally destabilize Earth's orbit by moving too much.

Teleport in chunks of asteroid and comets as needed. That will only work when objects of interest are close, so arrange for massive observation of space and space stations in place so I can move to them. Since I don't have an effective mass limit, I may need to arrange for daisy-chains of stations so I can move rapidly between them and teleport asteroids and comets daisy-chain 1 light-second at a time to get them into position. I can't teleport myself or other humans, but I can teleport hydrogen directly into fuel tanks for high-speed travel at max speed.

Have teams create segments of a space station, as large as can be reasonably constructed on earth. This is going to require waiting for asteroids and comets to move into 1-light-second range, which isn't common, so promote tracking every last blob in the solar system and building aforementioned daisy-chain to move them one lightsecond at a time into orbit.

Teleport Space-Station segments into space as needed.

Teleport fuel into the rocket as needed to get it into space and get vetted construction workers to assemble the chunks as needed. Send scientists and whatever else is required as needed.

Arrange for the creation of a Lunar space base. I don't need to build it myself though I'll teleport in nearby asteroids for materials as needed using the daisy-chain.

Teleport fuel into the rocket as needed to get it into space and get colonists on the moon.

Even the moon is 1.28 light-seconds average, so we can't touch it yet. Teleport the base to orbit, then alter its trajectory at the moon as needed. Once that's done, travel into orbit so that my range is effectively 21LS from Earth, then transport pre-built modules to the moon as needed.

We can't fix Mars... yet. It needs a stable atmosphere and it's well out of range.

However, once you're in orbit, you're halfway to everywhere else. Teleport fuel as needed to the space stations, then send them to mars to assemble a colony. Once a daisy-chain of stations is assembled, travel to Mars and beyond.

Teleport nickel-iron asteroids into Mars orbit using the daisy-chain.

Replace Mars' core with nickel-iron to create a planetary magnetic field, teleport its core into orbit to produce a decent-sized moon.

Reeee at the scientists who probably didn't get it right the first time and redo as needed to give Mars a planetary magnetic field. Look, this is uncharted and hideously complex work, it probably won't go right the first time.

Teleport comets as needed to give Mars at atmosphere once it has a magnetic field to contain said atmosphere.

Have rocket scientists design cloud cities for Venus. Alternately, have them draw up plans for how Venus might be terraformed by teleporting greenhouse gasses out of it depending on prevailing models. Teleport out greenhouse gasses

Repeat Martian plan with Venus. Reeee at scientists who didn't get it right and redo until Venus is inhabitable.

Construct further Daisy-Chains of stations to the Oort cloud until I can access comets a needed.

Begin construction of long-range probes, and then ships, to reach other solar systems. These are vastly outside my reach telekinetically but once you're in orbit, you're halfway, there, especially if I can use daisy-chains to get a full load of and move myself at top speed using max fuel along the way. I can always teleport fuel in as long as it's within a light second, so build fuel-stations every light second. Spend time moving massive, quadrillion-ton fuel canisters back and forth (after teleporting comets to refinery stations we teleported in to make said fuel, of course) to ensure rockets have massive fuel supplies in place to let them burn at 1G for long distances.

At 1G, We're looking at three and a half years to reach Alpha Centauri. However as they slowly orbit, the daisy-chain will make other systems that are further away accessible too.

The expansion will continue until I die of old age, which will be as long as the finest medicine humanity can possibly create given I'm the single most valuable person on earth at this point and I began pouring billions into life-extension early on. If things go well, early investments into life extension pay off and we get this rate of expansion for 100-150 years. If things go exceptionally well, we figure out centuries-to-immortality but I won't count on that. If not, spend my last years building infrastructure to make expansion easier once I'm gone. Arrange for a statue of myself at the vastest size possible to be built because I still have an ego.

You're way more ambitious and less secure than I'd be. I'd be really conservative about how I'd use the granted power and probably wouldn't use it in reality warping ways unless I felt I needed to because a nice nap on a beach is a lot more pleasant than some of the shit I've survived.

 

[bintananth]

So the first power is a more broken version of alchemy from full metal alchemist? I can't make something from nothing but I can change it? The second one, could I go into a Casino and just make probability manipulation have it so that the slot machine always gives me the jackpot, or can I make it so that any gun fired at me will misfire and either blow up to hurt the bad guy or not work at all?

One of the problems with scenarios like this is that "ZOMG, I've got a power level of 'yes'" tends to outweigh our "don't let anyone know exactly how strong you are" instincts.

 

[ATP]

1.Destroy all not used plastic
2.Destroy all A,H,B,C weapons.And all radioactive remnants.
3.Destroy entire russian and german military equipment in Europe.

 

[bintananth]

I had a "how could things go wrong as side effects of fixing things with these powers?" braindoodle. Here are some of examples:

- sequester all nuclear reactor waste not presently in a reactor within the Earth's crust: most smoke detectors stop working.
- lower atmospheric temperatures enough to undo the warming caused by all historical human activity: unusually wet weather everywhere for awhile and ice age ahoy!
- remove all the Fluorine from the atmosphere to protect the ozone layer: Everything that Flourine was attached to (mostly carbon) wants to react with atmospheric O2 and O3. CO2 levels rise a bit as things sort themselves out.
- disable the worst air pollution sources in ways that aren't cheap or easy to fix: This'll knock out a whole bunch of things that aren't coal fired powerplants too.

 

[Atarlost]

The existence of plutonium in non-NATO submarines offends me. I wish it to "randomly" stop being plutonium.
The existence of Uranium 235 in non-NATO submarines also offends me. I wish it to "randomly" stop being uranium.

These steps destroy all non-NATO second strike nuclear arsenals. The casualties would be military personnel.

The existence of plutonium and Uranium in Communist countries offends me. I wish the plutonium to be distributed throughout the mantle and the uranium to be oxidized and added to existing known pitchblende deposits outside those countries.

I wish all petrolium reservoirs in Iran and Iraq to be emptied and used to refill oil reservoirs in other nations starting with the US and Canada.

I wish every person who dies in China for a reason attributable to the government to appear one meter in front of the CEO of whichever non-Chinese tech or media company has been doing the most to pursue Chinese business, defend Chinese policy, or suppress discussion since the last corpse appeared.

You give me ROBlike powers I'm going to try to remake the world to my liking.

 

[bintananth]

@Atarlost,

I take it you don't particularly like China and aren't going to be subtle about it.

Some subtle ways to accomplish the much same thing without tipping off the victims or unpleasant unintended consequences:

- leave the reactors and fissile material alone but muck with the detonators, guidance systems, and delivery platforms so they just don't work outside controlled tests. I'd also be a bit more specific than non-NATO because India has some SSBN's and doesn't like China while North Korea doesn't call itself Communist (Cuba, Vietnam*, and Laos do).

- relocating Iraqi and Iranian oil reserves will result in oil shortages and oil price spikes which suck for everyone so leaving those alone or limiting it to untapped reserves might be wise.

- Instead of the corpse teleportation gore: make something expensive happen to a non-Chinese investment in China belonging to the company or person which fits your criteria without limiting it to tech and media companies. "Ow, my wallet!" tends to be very effective.

* Ho Chi Minh actually liked the US. He just wanted the French to leave and the Soviets were more than happy to help him kick them out. The Vietnamese also overthrew a neighbouring Communist regime and restored the Cambodian Monarchy.

The little-known story of Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh’s admiration for the US

The founding father of modern Vietnam is Ho Chi Minh. He led Vietnam's communist revolution against French colonial rule and then took on the United States. But it seems he long had an admiration for the US and repeatedly sought the country's help in the decades before the Vietnam War.

www.pri.org

 

[Atarlost]

@Atarlost,

I take it you don't particularly like China and aren't going to be subtle about it.

I don't like Communists and tyrants, but the ability doesn't let me remove tyrants directly. Although I have since come up with an idea: All weapons and military vehicles in China are converted into gyroget carbines and ammo and evenly distributed among adult civilians in China who don't work for the government. I definitely want the fissionables out before doing that, though.

Why gyrojets? Because there's very very little chamber pressure so they can probably be safely made out of non-steel metals used in vehicle manufacture and there's basically no ammo to import or easy way to make more so the fighting should die down for lack of bullets before too long if nobody stirs the pot by dumping less exotic firearms into the country.

Some subtle ways to accomplish the much same thing without tipping off the victims or unpleasant unintended consequences:

I want to tip off the victims and a lot of those consequences are intended. Since the rules don't allow me to remove governments I am trying to do things in a way that maximizes the chances of civil unrest leading to their violent overthrow. And the direct redistribution of the means of violence idea hadn't yet occurred to me when I first posted.

- leave the reactors and fissile material alone but muck with the detonators, guidance systems, and delivery platforms so they just don't work outside controlled tests. I'd also be a bit more specific than non-NATO because India has some SSBN's and doesn't like China while North Korea doesn't call itself Communist (Cuba, Vietnam*, and Laos do).

Reactors can be used to make more fissile material for bombs. I don't trust them with anything nuclear. You're right that I should have excluded India, though. I thought they only had land based missiles. I suppose I should include Israel too in case the rumors of them having a nuclear sub are true. Vietnam doesn't urgently matter either way if I'm reading this right. They have plans to build nuclear plants, but none actually operating. I'm also less confident of their ability to resist PRC pressure than Taiwan or Japan or South Korea if they have fuel sitting around waiting for those reactors to be constructed.

Making all the nuke boats explode is a way to show that "ROB is fed up with your shit" since you've made the distance limit to short to write it on the moon in molten regolith. It makes it pretty clear that something has gone catastrophically wrong with their nuclear deterrent.

- relocating Iraqi and Iranian oil reserves will result in oil shortages and oil price spikes which suck for everyone so leaving those alone or limiting it to untapped reserves might be wise.

Limiting it to untapped reserves wouldn't change behaviors. I want to reinvigorate the oil industry in North America. And I probably should have put Mexico in the priority group for refilling reserves. Price spikes facilitate this. I also want to immediately cut off ISIS or Caliphate or whatever they're calling themselves today potential access to petrodollars and immediately remove Iran's ability to circumvent the embargo.

- Instead of the corpse teleportation gore: make something expensive happen to a non-Chinese investment in China belonging to the company or person which fits your criteria without limiting it to tech and media companies. "Ow, my wallet!" tends to be very effective.

Making it impossible to hide genocide is part of the point. The original plan was for them to appear on the Whitehouse Lawn, but rubbing media moguls' noses in their mess serves a dual purpose. I doubt they would realize why I was making them lose money or that it was anything but bad luck since you won't let me melt "Communists are the enemy of all mankind" into the lunar surface. Stupid one light second limit. /pouts

Also, I would interpret your suggestion as running too close to your prohibition on altering documents. I prefer to let the sword master money since swords are definitely and unambiguously not documents but banknotes are documents if you squint.

 

[Scottty]

Am I allowed to use this power to build something that I don't actually know the complete specs of? Like a computer or a spaceship?

 

[bintananth]

Am I allowed to use this power to build something that I don't actually know the complete specs of? Like a computer or a spaceship?

Yes.

The power works like Exalted's Wyld-Shaping Technique in that regard with the restriction that the end result must be physically posible, so no willing into existence an ampule containing the world's extisential angst.

 

[TheRejectionist]

ROB has decided to gift you nearly unlimited power. You can do the following just by willing it to happen:

- change the properties of almost any object within one light-second of where you currently are provided the end result obeys the laws of physics.
- change probabilities so a random event has a specific desired outcome.

But there are limits to this power:

- your powers can not directly alter any multicellular living organism in any way except to relocate it to the nearest safe suitable location it if it must be moved to make space for what you will into existence.
- your powers can not change any record or document like votes, laws, ledgers, books, audio, video, &c
- the matter and energy for what you wish to create will be drawn from the Earth itself.
- the matter and energy for what you wish to destroy will be dispersed throughout the Earth itself.

What would you do with these powers?

Some examples involving a bar of gold:

Spoiler

You will one to appear on your dining room table: One is created from the gold scattered throughout the Earth.

You will a specific bar of gold to appear on your dining room table: It is teleported to your dining room table.

You will one to disappear from from your dining room table: It vanishes and the gold is scattered throughout the Earth.

You will it to become a gold statue: It becomes a gold statue.

You will it to become liquid: It warms up and melts.

You will it to become a gas: It warms up more and boils.

Become an anti-villain or antihero and remove the politicians that infest my motherland and my fatherland.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Yes.

The power works like Exalted's Wyld-Shaping Technique in that regard with the restriction that the end result must be physically posible, so no willing into existence an ampule containing the world's extisential angst.

Huh. That... actually dramatically changes how my plan should work. I don't need to have other people build spacecraft for me, I can just construct something theoretically possible, teleport it a light second away, teleport to it, and build my own daisy chain to available resources so I don't risk depleting the earth of minerals constructing megastructure habitats.

This also has some really interesting knock-on effects for research, as somebody can present a theory and I can simply construct the device in question their theory would lead to, if it works, the theory gets significant validation (though no guarantee since the device might work but due to different rules than theorized, ie. I could build a rocket that appears to work per Newtonian physics but is actually working on Relativity). If it doesn't, back to the drawing board. This could tremendously speed some scientific advances that are stymied by how expensive it is to test them, like Fusion and AI research.

Wyld Shaping can also create living breathing people as well as souls, so I could also repopulate extinct species, and potentially go eugenicist lord on humanity by generating people with traits I want and discreetly mixing them in the population, though the ramifcations of that are something that's going to give me serious thoughts.

It's probably I can also simply generate some kind of age-regression/immortality serum to keep going as there's bound to be some theoretical way to extend a human's lifespan well past what our bodies manage naturally.

 

[bintananth]

@Bear Ribs,

You can't teleport yourself, but otherwise the first part of your plan has merits. You're also forgetting the restriction forbidding the direct alteration of multicellular life, so resurrecting or creating such things would be a "how about no" I forgot to clearly specify in the OP.*

The miracle drugs to combat aging might be doable but the side effects (especially the societal ones) would be unpredictable.

Become an anti-villain or antihero and remove the politicians that infest my motherland and my fatherland.

How would you do it? I'd be partial to setting things up so the latest Great Idea (TM) they push on everyone turns into an embarrasing catastrophe of epic proportions.

* I put that restriction in so you couldn't just will someone to suddenly drop dead or be maimed *because I said so*.