Technopathy. Being able to sense and manipulate electronics/electricity flows to “hack” computers and less smart hardware by waving my hands and “wishing” the outcome I wanted would make my life so much easier.
I could charge a good rate for my ability and my learnt knowledge as well take down huge tech companies.
This, but with selective abstraction.
I could just manipulate raw electricity signals, but if i need to i can see the flow of assembler instructions running through the CPU, or even the same code in some high-level language modeled on my brain pattern.
As en electronics engineer I’m going to “Yes But…” this and say that the lower the voltage/current you’re trying to manipulate the more concentration it requires to do it without over-voltaging the components you’re trying to manipulate and frying the circuitry.
So whilst this would be possible you’d have to:
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Hold all the cores, ALU, etc. in the CPU at the current state that they’re in
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Then spend time flipping the bits (not one at a time but like a whole 32 bit number) required to represent your instructions.
With enough practice and meditation you get a “feel” for the instructions and can do this but it takes time. I think this is fair as once you’ve learnt a CPU architecture most of the machine instructions are the same and it’s just a matter of getting them to run in the right order.
This way you don’t start out overpowered and there’s a high skill ceiling.
(I may or may not be writing a book around this already and have thought about it a lot haha)
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Basic telekenisis. I want to be able to move object(s) with my mind. This can include me, also giving me a base level of flight.
It would just be so convenient. Nothing is ever out of reach again.
Gaining energy going social activities not losing it
Teleportation, no distance limit, and I can take others with me. For accuracy, I can “see” where I’m about to teleport to. First, I’m going to explore other planets with life, venturing into the universe for a few weeks. Then I’m going to move a few people off planet. Don’t worry, I’ll let them bring their money.
I would like the ability to remove other people’s superpowers, please, and thank you
Not one that I think I would actually want, but one I’ve thought a lot about is absolute bodily autonomy in the same way that you can control any aspect of your body consciously but without deliberate thought then it’ll default back to unconscious control. Want to grow taller? Start kicking that system back into drive. Want to lose weight? Start absorbing energy less efficiently or burning more calories fruitlessly. Have a random pain? Start to monitor that area and sensing for any particular anomalies.
If the control can go all the way down to the microscopic level then you’d be a walking advancement factory for every medical field. The primary issue would be trying to make practical recreations of the medicines and procedures you’d help create, and even then you could try bioengineering cells to recreate your medicines and procedures. You’d also likely be able to effectively never age by correcting the errors in your cell reproduction. With enough time and effort you could probably spawn a clone of yourself to go out and continue to help others.
If you allow the caveat that this also works on anyone/anything that you can touch, then the limit for what you can cure or at least aid with is bound only by what you can touch, analyze, and solve in time.
How to exit neovim.
The correct answer is omnipotence
immortality but I can die if I want to.
To be able to create any art I have in my imagination in seconds exactly how I imagine. Videos, photos, sculptures, etc.
Immunity to procrastination
Now you have A type personality and can’t stop until everything is perfect.
Telekinesis.
Incredibly underrated power. It’s probably the most OP and versatile power someone can have.
Oh mine is very simple and not much to ask at all: I just want pure, unlimited, godlike omnipotence.
I promise to use it in every irresponsible way imaginable.
Hmm, reminds of this part of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory
Objectively the correct answer.
At least you would be using it. (Ahem)
You would definitely enjoy Preacher. Graphic novels are great, show is better than ok.
Guy ends up gaining “the word of God” as an ability
We allready have one Stephen Fry
Excellent!
Be able to do stuff, at will.
!adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com is leaking again
I feel personally attacked
Nothing personal, we’re all in this together. I’d take that power too.
Sounds op af
My farts would make people happy
I’m dying of laughter. God lol.
My answer to this question is always teleportation, including my clothes and anyone I’m touching (and their clothes). And the ability to not appear inside solid objects. No more traffic. No more passports or visas. No more long multi-hour drives or long haul flights.
Have fun figuring out the point of reference of your new powers. It would be hillarious if it was not the nearest grvitational well. Earth moves, the sun moves, our galaxy moves. Watch it be not the most obvious thing, and you teleport into empty space.
This flaw in teleportation logic hinges on the assumption that there is an absolute reference frame- which as far as I’m aware there isn’t. There is real science behind teleportation, and from what I’ve seen the frame of reference of the origin is what determines the endpoint. If you COULD manipulate the frame of reference as well, you could teleport a small rock an inch forward, but with the frame of reference of a near lightspeed object to create a crazy projectile.
Basically, you’d still need to follow the rules of conservation of momentum and energy, or it could be broken.
…and that always comes up as a response. Ok fine, I’ll add another line to the fine print: The ability to teleport at the exact place I want to be. If you want to counter that still, then make it places I’ve been to before. It will limit my destinations, but it still saves me time and effort. I’ve never been to France, but I’ve been to Germany, so that still reduces my travel from almost a day of flying and layovers to a train ride.
Place you want to be is a better caveat. Places you have been before is counterable with the original argument since when you account for space on a universal level every Place is a new place
Dude! Think bigger. Alien worlds.
at least in x-men they have limitations to that, where they also have added ability to sense where they are teleporting is filled space or not. not in the comics but blink the portal creator can sense dimensional distorstions too.
You know the movie jumper?
