The 10% stacks additively, each time you do the deal, this status is applied to a different 10%. If you sacrifice 10 fingers, the entire world is guaranteed basic human needs (food, water, shelter, clothing, healthcate, etc…)
Nobody knows you saved them. Would you do it?
If everyone knows about the fact that you can do this deal, would that change your mind?
How are they taking the fingers. Do they just disappear or is it something gruesome like having them chopped off? Blood is icky.
Every single finger. I’d give my arms and legs too if it would help. Once the world was fixed I might want to take part in it again too, if nobody knew it was me. If it was public knowledge that I did it though, I’d probably keep being a hermit. I do not like attention or people knowing who I am.
If “basic human needs” includes a full working set of fingers, all ten, because then I get them back.
OP, are you a billionaire trying to reframe global poverty as me being unwilling to chop my fingers off rather than you being unwilling to share your enormous wealth?
Fuck, how do these plebs keep finding out my scheme.
And my toes too, just to be sure
Who would answer anything but “chop em all off”? Lol. You can singlehandedly stop world hunger, and you don’t even have to give your life for it, just your fingers? A lot of praiseworthy people have given way more for way less. It’s a small sacrifice for the betterment of the world, I wouldn’t trust any man whose immediate instinct isn’t to sacrifice their fingers…
It’s a small sacrifice for the betterment of the world,
*Betterment of humanity.
Singlehandedly? I think you need to sacraficebfingers from both hands
Every conservative.
All 10 even if they have to be taken off with a hacksaw. I would be concerned about the being who could so easily do this, but has a sick desire to maim me first though.
Falls in line with the ethics of basically all known gods.
You mean, human created stories. It’s not like these beings are likely to exist.
That’s kind’ve the point. Very few of these imagined deities are even worthy of worship despite being fabricated as the “ultimate” being.
kind’ve
Ok not to be nitpicky but this is the first time I’ve ever seen the opposite (complementary?) mistake to “could of”. That’s actually kinda fun :D
If everybody has their basic needs met, the odds of getting prosthetic fingers dramatically increases. I’d be OK with that swap. Bonus: Robot Fingers.
You could have more than 10 fingers, and with updates, they will get better every year. … different fingers for different purpose…
Yeah, I feel like that’s a good deal. Especially if I get credit. I mean, I’d still do it if it was anonymous, but can you imagine the popularity of being the guy who cut off his fingers for world peace? Frankly you’d be kind of a monster not to do it. So many people lose hands for nothing at all. But being the guy with the robot fingers who gave the world peace and joy? Sure, sign me up. Sounds rad af.
No. Humans had their chance. Let humans go extinct. Now is the era of the otter.
Do the needs stay satisfied, or is it going to be like 2 years later we have billionaires and starvation again?
Fuck yes dude, chop my hands off. I’m in one of those 10%
I would need more specificity around “basic human needs”. It could be that only 1-30% of the world’s population don’t currently meet that threshold, so sure, easy call to lop off pinky thru middle finger on my non-dominant hand to help them. I mean, ask “would you cut off your pinky finger to stop the genocide in Gaza?” and that would be a hard, fast yes and that’s way less than 10% of the world affected.
If we’re talking past basic survival to full universal healthcare and universal basic income… I’d consider all ten fingers with more details. I’m super sus of any monkey paw curls, so I want to understand the ins and outs before I say all ten fingers.
Hey—so uh—you didn’t say whose fingers were have to sacrifice. This is a no brainier.
Ah shit, you found the loophole 😁
Depends: for how long? 1 finger = 10% of humanity has all of their basic survival needs met forever? Done and done, take all 10. Seems like an extremely tiny price to pay to alleviate a colossal amount of suffering in the world forever, and without all those people being distracted by meeting their basic needs odds are technology is going to advance even more rapidly, along with the quality of things like medical prosthetics and neural interfaces and shit. So, yes please bring on the cyberpunk without the dystopia.
If I help 100% of people that means that science will advance super fast and I can get those gnarly hands from Ghost in the Shell that split into even smaller fingers and allows me to type at 7,000WPM.
