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?
And my toes too, just to be sure
If “basic human needs” includes a full working set of fingers, all ten, because then I get them back.
8 fingers, 10 digits.
id do it in a heart beat. and then get robot hands. spend the rest of my life being adored, with robot hands that can have like darts or lighters in the fingers or something.
plus, all my needs would be taken care of as a result. and the poor would be better equipped to tackle inequality further without worry of starvation or loss of healthcare and various other listed issues that currently hold us back.
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…
Singlehandedly? I think you need to sacraficebfingers from both hands
Every conservative.
It’s a small sacrifice for the betterment of the world,
*Betterment of humanity.
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 the billionaires have an AI number of fingers.
Ten right away, and then another as often as there’s a 10% turnover in world population.
Hey, you never said they had to be my fingers.
Do the needs stay satisfied, or is it going to be like 2 years later we have billionaires and starvation again?
Damn, these earthlings are getting too intelligent with their knowledge of contract laws.
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.
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.
You could have more than 10 fingers, and with updates, they will get better every year. … different fingers for different purpose…
Hey—so uh—you didn’t say whose fingers were have to sacrifice. This is a no brainier.
Ah shit, you found the loophole 😁
If those 10% were picked completely at random, then it’s not obvious to me that this would be a good thing. It would effectively increase wealth inequality in the world, where 10% of any population is given something the rest don’t have. That kind of disparity builds resentment and could, in the long run, end up causing more harm than good. If there’s a poor village where nearly everyone is struggling, and suddenly 10% of the population has their basic needs guaranteed, they’d instantly become the “rich guys” of that village. You’d need to do it for the whole village - but then the same issue arises when people in the next village start resenting yours, and so on.
Either way, I’d give 0–2 fingers. I could probably live a perfectly normal life without my pinkies, but I’m not going to pretend I’d definitely go through with it - even if, from a strictly rational perspective, it’s kind of a no-brainer.
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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
Yup.
Maybe it’s not a being, maybe you have some generic abnormality that can be exploited somehow. Bonus points if the abnormality is regeneration.
Fuck yes dude, chop my hands off. I’m in one of those 10%
Agreed, take all ten fingers, 100% of everyone’s needs met, including my need for fingers
Its only “basic needs”. Paraplegics are still human. you dont habe your fingers anymore, but you’ve still got two extra arms, two extra legs, a spare lung and kidney, and a bunch of other stuff that you don’t technically “need” as a human.
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.
yes because there would be billions of people who would be willing to lift my drink to my lips for a sip and and help me dress etc
All 10 of course. Rather keep it discreet though, don’t want anybody asking awkward questions about why I carry around bags of fingers, whose fingers they are, that sort of thing.
