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Friendly reminder that in certain situations, world domination is actually possible!
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@Nepiant >now imagine a very, very powerful computer with all of humanity mind uploaded to it
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If you want to be above the law, a simple superpower or two won't get you that. If you keep going against the law, soon enough the whole CIA and FBI will be plotting against you to assassinate you, and they'll have funding from every single person who hates your guts. If humanity can come together to put a person on the moon, then they can come together to kill a superhero.
If you want to be above the law, what you need is the might, charisma, and intelligence to keep humanity from uniting against you. This means taking the major powers of humanity and plotting them against each other. If they're too distracted fighting each other they're less likely to unite and target you. If humanity is corrupt enough, this should be relatively easy. Corrupt people will gladly do things which are a detriment to society as a whole, in the name of a little money, even if they are in the dark about what's going on planet-wide.
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And world domination IS possible! Start out small: Imagine that the Earth doesn't exist and all there is is a small house, magically floating in space. If you were the only person in that house, then you would already have brisk and effective control over the whole house, allowing you to have world domination without having to do anything.
Now imagine a bigger house, also magically floating in space. Imagine there being about 10 people in that house, including you. If you possessed your own guns and knives and the rest of the people in the household possessed neither, then you would easily have world domination in your world of a house. You could also possess world domination simply by having all the people in the house respect you as their leader, but that's boring, and doesn't come with the freedom to do whatever you want.
You can continue imagining bigger houses all the way up to the size of the Earth (or bigger!) and each time it grows in size the situation for world domination becomes more complex.
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You cannot imagine a whole story into existence in an instant. You have to pick your favorite plotlines and characters and put the story together piece by piece. You cannot envision a whole book, every word at once, you can only envision a small piece of it at a time, whether that be the outside of the book or a few words on the page. We cannot do these things today, but with the assistance of an exocortex and AI, or mind uploading and subsequent modification, we may be able to do it in the future.
The thing you have the most dominance over is your own imagination. And even that is limited. The thing you have the second most dominance over is your own creations: You can create anything you can put your mind to. You have absolute and sole control over what goes where, and what becomes what. It's not as responsive as your imagination, though. Not as immediate.
Now imagine a very, very powerful computer with all of humanity mind uploaded to it. And you are the only one with admin privileges. That would be world domination. The role might make it hard for people to relate to you, though. The more domination you have over the world the more like a God you are. And the more like a God you are, the more alone you'll be.
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