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Norwee

Formerly NorwegianboyEE

From: Norway

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Thought experiment.

You find yourself standing in a big white room with 2 noteworthy objects.

There's a door and a pedestal with a huge red button on it.

The door is the exit. Walking through it will put you back into the computer seat you are sitting on, allowing you to move on with your life. However, it is one way only. So you can never return to this room.

The pedestal with the big red button however, has a note on top of it. It reads:

"This button is the self-destruct sequence for the universe. Pressing it will end all life, all physical matter, protons, neutrons, electrons, temperature, time, everything.
The entire universe will be returned to an state of absolute zero, and stay that way for all of eternity.
The process is entirely painless for all living individual as it's effect is instantaneous. There will no longer be any pain, sorrow, hatred, crime, murder, hunger, life.
On the other hand, there will no longer be any happiness, love, friendship, dreams, thoughts, existence."

You have a one time chance to forever end the universe by the simple tap of a button. Or, you may simply walk away, keeping the universe functioning just as it is now. It is a big decision, you are deciding whether all that is good and bad with the world is to continue.

Would - you - press - it?

Why?

Why not?

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RavaTroll

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From: France

Joined: 2015-02-16

Posts: 820

Re: Thought experiment.

Does it make a funny sound when you press it ?

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Raphe9000

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Posts: 1,864

Re: Thought experiment.

I find myself standing in a big white room with 2 noteworthy objects.

There's a door and a pedestal with a huge red button on it.

I see the button and press the button. I look at the note an-

Schlog

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Joined: 2015-07-21

Posts: 1,957

Re: Thought experiment.

in simplest terms the question is "if you could would you just kill everyone for the hell of it"

there are literally 0 upsides to pressing the button

if it did something special for me then maybe id go for it

Tomahawk

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From: UK

Joined: 2015-02-18

Posts: 2,847

Re: Thought experiment.

Nah.

It’d be a waste of all the time and effort put into getting to that point, on a universal scale.

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Formerly eleizibeth

Joined: 2017-06-29

Posts: 785

Re: Thought experiment.

what point in time would i even be in the room?

i'd press the button just to see what happens though

peace

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From: admin land

Joined: 2015-08-10

Posts: 9,226

Re: Thought experiment.

*asees button* *preeses it* *starts reading th enote* pres-...

nah jk not that fast

i would only do it if a ne wbetter universe came back wiht human life

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Anatoly

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Re: Thought experiment.

Thats physically not possible. I am 100% convinced this topic is a lie.

Nebula

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Re: Thought experiment.

I'm not risking to press that button.

ILikeTofuuJoe

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Re: Thought experiment.

But where is the Law of Conservation of Energy?

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Anatoly

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Re: Thought experiment.

But where is the Law of Conservation of Energy?

I'm sure that's the thought experiment.

Point is only, with our level of technology, how do you put so much time switching energy into one room? This topic is not possible.

Norwee

Formerly NorwegianboyEE

From: Norway

Joined: 2015-03-16

Posts: 3,773

Re: Thought experiment.

Try to have some suspension of disbelief Anatoly, what you're talking about is not the point of the topic.

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mutantdevle

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From: Hell

Joined: 2015-03-31

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Re: Thought experiment.

Who am I to make this decision for the entire universe?

I walk past this button, content that mere existence is better than the alternative.

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Yu

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Re: Thought experiment.

Thot experiment

peace

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From: admin land

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Re: Thought experiment.

i think its th ebest to ask god if we shoudl press the button or not he knows if weve **** up th eplanet enough or not

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thanks hg for making this much better and ty for my avatar aswell

drunkbnu

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Joined: 2017-08-16

Posts: 2,306

Re: Thought experiment.

i think its th ebest to ask god if we shoudl press the button or not he knows if weve **** up th eplanet enough or not

Why would we have to ask Chris Lamb whether we should press the button?

Koya

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From: The island with those Brits

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Re: Thought experiment.

"This button is the self-destruct sequence for the universe. Pressing it will end all life"

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ASDruska

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From: Syria!

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Posts: 1,061

Re: Thought experiment.

our universe didnt come with video game physics

honestly end it whats the point if theres none of that

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