elidyce wrote this amazing response to the writing prompt: “You have proof that the universe is a computer simulation. Instead of telling the world about your discovery, you exploit bugs in the simulation to teleport and clone yourself.” Though it doesn’t actually play by the rules of the writing prompt, they actually come up with lots of better ideas than cloning yourself:
Source: elidyce
(via: Cheezburger)
There’s a book series called Magic 2.0, that kinda runs with a similar concept, I enjoy it 🙂
A few tweaks to the economic system so that everyone has enough food, shelter, and other necessities.
Big shift to prevent people being able to hoard more than they could possibly spend in a million lifetimes (which would probably bring about the above automatically).
Even bigger shift to heal the environment.
FRIENDLY ALIENS & interstellar travel.
Friendly Aliens, but every single extraterrestrial civilization we encounter has a region called Canada. None of the aliens ever noticed or thought it was odd.
And the word “Canada” (kanata) means “village” or “settlement” in every single alien language.
Teleporting
– I would contact NASA and other space agencies, and demonstrate my abilities. Then for an appropriate fee, my clones and I teleport space probes and astronauts to desired locations around the solar system. Not only would this save billions of dollars in unnecessary rockets, but we could have Moon and Mars colonies in no time. If I want additional fame, then part of the contract is that I have the option to be the first one to arrive at any new location (eg. first person on Mars, first person on Mercury, first Person on Enceladus, etc.)
– I could also open my own travel service, transporting anyone anywhere on Earth (There has to be restrictions and training for space travel. You don’t want someone contaminating Europa, or accidentally killing any life forms that exist there, through ignorance or arrogance). This could be the ultimate, live anywhere/work anywhere, service.
– Anytime a nation attempts military action against another nation without sufficient or just cause, they will find their army teleported to a desolate region to reconsider their life choices. Army, not equipment or weaponry. Whether they are teleported back, or need to make their way back on their own, will depend on the situation.
– Foreigners held in prison or captivity in other countries may be teleported back to their own country to serve out their sentence (if applicable) or freedom if held unjustly.
By cloning, I assume an instant copy of myself with all my current knowledge, rather than getting some random female pregnant with my identical twin brother born years later. We would all operate separately and independently, but in a coordinated way, so that if we were targeted for kidnap/assassination we are all expendable but are unlikely to be completely eliminated. One of us would always remain somewhere to make clones to replace the others if needed.
I like your ideas, but I have one tweak to the teleporting hostile armies idea.
Instead of a random desolate location, the invading army finds itself in its own capital every time.