Private property? Freedom of speech? Freedom to breed? Freedom of thought?..
Merge mind. That it.
I want all people on earth link their mind, to become one.
Because most of hardship, miserable i had in my life was cause by another.
If we link our mind, each each of a “body” as our own, they we are much better happy and archived more than what we are now.
So you’d sacrifice individuality? That’s a good scifi one.
If The internet gets good enough with chips in our head and everything. I guess that’s what we’d basically have. Access to each other’s memories and senses. Just ghosts and an internet of flesh
If you play Sellaris, there are hive mind ascension. So a civilization might be once individual like human, but in the end, they become hive mind. By psychic enlightenment, or by machine augmentation, or by genetic manipulation …
Billionaires, to the god Quetzalcoatl.
I think we could sacrifice billionaires to Peppa Pig and it’d still get the job done.
I’m the guy dancing in this image
Hey can you tell me what’s the source of this please? Seems interesting
Apocalypto
2006 film
Convenience.
Sadly it is something far fewer people are willing to give up than any of the above.It really depends on the kind of convenience.
Some conveniences are easier to give up, especially if giving them up will benefit others.
Example: if we are willing to walk around with smartphones that are 5mm thicker and 50g heavier, and a bit less slick in design, we can fix them instead of buying new ones. This kind of things. And we are not even willing to give that up.
This guy speaks about this (I’m not sure if this is the right video)
Who is “we”? You got a mouse in your pocket or something? I absolutely would make that sacrifice. I hate smartphones. I didn’t own one until 2020 and only ended up with it because some scumbag salesman tricked my aging mom into buying it and adding a new number on her account under contract. So she gave it to me. I wish smartphones would go away. They are as “smart” as AI is “intelligent”. I’ve gone without a car most of my life, i’ve never had netflix/instagram/amazon/twitter/etc accounts, I didn’t have internet for the first 15 years as an adult and I am ready to give these things I have now that I don’t want, which are somehow mandatory to participate in life these days. The prospect of getting rid of it all and trying my hand at hermit life or as a hobo grow stronger every day.
It won’t be a better world if there’s no private property or freedom of speech or freedom to breed or freedom of thought.
The instant these freedoms are forfeited, the world becomes worse.
Every last person working to make it a worse world.
The landlords.
There are a lot of them so it would be exhausting work to behead them all myself but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make
A better world wouldn’t require sacrificing freedoms.
Conservatives.
Private property isn’t a sacrifice. I don’t own any.
There’s a difference between personal property and private property. Private property is a mall, is a factory, is machinery at your workplace. Personal property is your toothbrush, your Playstation, your Television, your blender, your set of German knives, your computer, your books, etc.
Freedom of speech has never existed. The illusion of it has been allowed to be stronger or weaker in various places at various times, if your speech is no threat it’s often allowed, it’s when it’s a threat that suddenly the freedom vanishes and hides behind excuses like national security or illegal ideologies, etc.
I question how you would get rid of freedom of thought without some sort of hellish brain implants being made mandatory so it’s an odd thing to mention.
I’d be willing to sacrifice an awful lot of fascists, reactionaries, and an awful lot of enabling liberals. I’d be willing to sacrifice bourgeoisie. The expropriation of their private property is not a sacrifice but a necessity for things being held in common trust for the people.
Some billionaires
Trump.
Edit: QuarterSwede beat me to it, so I’ll go for Musk as a close second.
I’d sacrifice social media algorithms. Delete them all.
Also ban advertisements
A sacrifice is something you like and want to keep, but you’re going to give it up for a higher good.
How much better we talking here?
Super better. All the important stuff free and top quality. Moonbase.
I’ll let you have my cats but you have to take both because they’re family. And I get to visit.
Out of the ones you listed, freedom to breed
For me that would depend on whether it’s just my personal freedom to do so or all of humanity’s. I didn’t come to the hypothetical thought experiment question thread to not kill 8 billion fucking people.
I don’t particularly want to be remembered for anything in my life. I don’t need fame or standing. I dedicate my life to trying to improve people’s lives as a teacher. I’d give my life if it meant everyone would live a significantly better life forever.
