Trouble shortly after his hospital stay , In the conversation you had with Bella about a button making pain a neutral warning, you said that you liked the intensity of pain. Suppose that the hypothetical button, instead of replacing pain with a simple neutral warning, kept pain intense but made it neutral instead of negative (like a roller coaster can be intense, and in itself is neither positive nor negative but can be interpreted either way by different people or the same person at different times). What are your feelings on that hypothetical button? Also, suppose you ran the numbers and found that more people commit suicide from too much pain than there are masochists of any intensity (I doubt that’s correct, but it’s a very clear case and you’re the one who brought it up). Then, when it was clear the numbers came out against you, would you push the button? Would you feel differently about Bella pushing the button if all the other avenues of hypothetical exploration didn’t pan out and you knew she knew those numbers? Trouble, How do eating and morphing interact? You implied that you can't eat in morph indefinitely, but presumably you don’t die of starvation if you get trapped in a morph. Can you survive comfortably for a week or two on the amount of food necessary to feed a bird while still maintaining the ability to morph back? Miles, At some point in the nearish future, you will acquire an immortality method (with tunable parameters from “just unaging” to “completely invulnerable to physical damage”, and will also come with the option of “reset to perfect health if something would otherwise kill you”). You will also get foolproof resurrection. You will also have the power to stop Jackson’s Hole cloning without the use of these methods (although, more likely, you will not have the ability to use those power because your wife or brother will beat you to it). Will you truly fulfill your promise to Baron Fell and grant him immortality or at least longevity? Kas, how do roller coasters work in your world? Is there a large fraction of the adult population who are just completely incapable of riding them, or are they somehow able to compensate a variety of unseparated dæmons? Brilliance, You once said, “If somebody knows something, and they think that if I knew it that would change how I act in ways that I’d like better but they’d like worse, so they make sure I don’t find out, then they’re not my friend and if I trust them I need to stop”. I know my credit card number. I think that if you knew my credit card number you might sometimes use it to buy things (especially if this happened before you got access to minting), which you would like better than the alternative but I would like worse. I even have a reason to think this: a lot of Jokers take up theft, and although I don’t think you were one of them it would not surprise me if you were. I attempt to hide my credit card number from people. I assume this is not the kind of thing you mean; what’s the difference? How do you feel about the majority of Bells at one point preventing Jokers from finding out how to declaw high-level coins?
Questions for Relatively Major Purples
In the conversation you had with Bella about a button making pain a neutral warning, you said that you liked the intensity of pain. Suppose that the hypothetical button, instead of replacing pain with a simple neutral warning, kept pain intense but made it neutral instead of negative (like a roller coaster can be intense, and in itself is neither positive nor negative but can be interpreted either way by different people or the same person at different times). What are your feelings on that hypothetical button? Also, suppose you ran the numbers and found that more people commit suicide from too much pain than there are masochists of any intensity (I doubt that’s correct, but it’s a very clear case and you’re the one who brought it up). Then, when it was clear the numbers came out against you, would you push the button? Would you feel differently about Bella pushing the button if all the other avenues of hypothetical exploration didn’t pan out and you knew she knew those numbers?
Trouble,
How do eating and morphing interact? You implied that you can't eat in morph indefinitely, but presumably you don’t die of starvation if you get trapped in a morph. Can you survive comfortably for a week or two on the amount of food necessary to feed a bird while still maintaining the ability to morph back?
Miles,
At some point in the nearish future, you will acquire an immortality method (with tunable parameters from “just unaging” to “completely invulnerable to physical damage”, and will also come with the option of “reset to perfect health if something would otherwise kill you”). You will also get foolproof resurrection. You will also have the power to stop Jackson’s Hole cloning without the use of these methods (although, more likely, you will not have the ability to use those power because your wife or brother will beat you to it). Will you truly fulfill your promise to Baron Fell and grant him immortality or at least longevity?
Kas, how do roller coasters work in your world? Is there a large fraction of the adult population who are just completely incapable of riding them, or are they somehow able to compensate a variety of unseparated dæmons?
Brilliance,
You once said, “If somebody knows something, and they think that if I knew it that would change how I act in ways that I’d like better but they’d like worse, so they make sure I don’t find out, then they’re not my friend and if I trust them I need to stop”. I know my credit card number. I think that if you knew my credit card number you might sometimes use it to buy things (especially if this happened before you got access to minting), which you would like better than the alternative but I would like worse. I even have a reason to think this: a lot of Jokers take up theft, and although I don’t think you were one of them it would not surprise me if you were. I attempt to hide my credit card number from people. I assume this is not the kind of thing you mean; what’s the difference? How do you feel about the majority of Bells at one point preventing Jokers from finding out how to declaw high-level coins?