You can’t undo the same 24 hours twice.
Probablity is truely random, I call this the “quantum coinflip”.
If you activate it on 12PM on Wednesday, the world reconstruct itself and the events from 12PM on Tuesday up to the moment of your ability’s activation.
The old timeline ceases to exist, all living organisms consciousness immediately shifts into the new timeline, they do not remember the previous timelines.
If you then activate it again at 1PM on the same Wednesday, you can only change events from 12PM to 1PM (for only for the elapsed hour, since the preceeding 24 hours before that are already write-protected). This second activation would mean that there’s another “quantum coinflip” to determine the outcome.
Any event past 24 hours is unchangeable, it’s permanent.
Once someone is dead, they cannot be saved. Something with 0% chance of happening cannot happen. Something with 100% chance of happening will always happen. Regardless of which timeline.
However, someone very close to death but not dead, you can dramatically increase their chance of survival if you land in a good timeline.
Conversely, someone getting an easily survivable gunshot would become near fatal if you roll into the bad timeline.
“Good” and “Bad” are subjective to your PoV and moral code. For example, if you think that a mass murderer should die, in your “good timeline”, they’ll be more likely to die, and their would-be victims would be more likely to survive, but remember there’s also the 50% chance there would be more deaths if you land on a bad timeline.
[And before anyone gets too smart and find loopholes:
For this hypothetical: A second is defined as: “the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom”, a minute is 60 seconds, an hour is 60 minutes, don’t use alien clocks lol, there’s no tricks to bypass this.]
I try to find the worst cherry pie in town. I go back 24 hours and hope its now the best cherry pie in town or something.
You roll a bad timeline, now the pie becomes a chernobyl disaster and everyone in town gets radiation poisoning. It’s all your fault!
Ok but is it the best Chernobyl disaster in town or is it fucking mid with a clever sign?
I’m the guy who, against all odds, would get “bad timeline” the first 10 times in a row and that’s a hole I could never dig out of, so no dice.
I would choose not to use it. If there’s a 50% chance of making things worse vs better, I can’t make an informed decision and weigh the risk. If I made things worse, I couldn’t justify my actions, and if I made things better, I would know it was the mysterious power that made it happen and I wouldn’t take credit for the result.
Why is taking credit one of your worries? You can’t tell anyone, and you can’t prove it anyway.
Besides, the informed decision is knowing you’re taking a 50/50 risk, which isn’t that bad IMO, depending on the situation. It also isn’t that good, so maybe I won’t use it unless the world has nothing to lose.
Is there a changelog to make sure it hasn’t already been run a couple of times? 🤔
A dozen, a hundred, it’s impossible to tell.
Wait a minute, you’re not supposed to know that… 👀
(Edit: Okay so, for this hypothetical, you remember what happened, nobody else remembers.)
We are clearly on a losing streak here. Hopefully someone gets a hit
Every day I flip to see if furries are able to become their fursona ( like actually become them and not just wear a fursuit or use a 2D and/or 3D model ) in a world where we won’t be monitered/studied by governments all over or hunted down.
50/50 we do, and 50/50 we don’t. I cannot see the downside considering we already cannot “turn into” them without a fursuit or model.
For a moment, I thought I was reading @Kolanaki@pawb.social’s comment
“Subjective to your PoV” is a really abusable term. If my investment makes 100x their initial value, it’s a good timeline. If it makes slightly less, it’s a bad timeline. I do not see my investments losing as a realistic scenario at all.
Coinflip three times, make up to a million for each dollar you have. You can use similar logic for whatever you may want to happen in future timelines.
I just keep redoing shit every 24 hours until we are in the perfect timeline.
How will you know you are in the best timeline? If you hit the jackpot and timeline is already perfect, there is no way to know. Any other coin flips will always produce sub-par results after that. (Unless multiple chances at perfection are possible, that is.)
Becsuse everyone will be an anthropomorphic animal instead of a gross human.
I’m probably gonna become a cat.
There’s actually an anime on the lines of that… The main character dies and reincarnates as a cat and keeps all memories of past life… its kinda NSFW, very verry weird. Don’t even wanna name it, lol, its very cringe.
(I cannot confirm nor deny that I may or may not have watched it 👀)
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Assuming I’m relatively aligned, I think I proc this more or less daily until I either have high risk of death, or things have improved substantially. Each day I should include some random event, like a dice roll or a draw of an MTG hand, so I can measure if the most recent reroll was a + or a -. Also, definitely start living extremely safely.
Treat base-timeline as 0, and one good proc as +1 (one bad as -1). Then this is a random walk on the integers, memoryless (markov) and balanced (equal odds of going in each direction). This random process tends to end up sqrt(N) away from 0 after N steps are made, revisits 0 infinitely often, and by symmetry is equally likely to be positive or negative. So with daily procs for 50 years, you have a reasonably high chance of reaching +138. So stopping at +80 or +100 feels both achievable and likely incredibly beneficial no matter what the implementation looks like (though you’ll probably spend years at -60 or worse; so safety really matters!).
I sell on eBay.
you would be creating paradoxes, and alternate timeline when you “change the past”, unless you can have the ability to also predict alternate time lines, undoing a past event is took risky.
This would definitely be magic or some sort of supernatural event on par with a god, and gods laugh at paradoxes.
Depends on how bad/good the changed outcome would be. And if the amount of change in either direction is also equal then there’s almost no situation when it would be worth doing it.
Like even in a worst case imaginable, since we’re dealing with magic then the result could always be worse. For example let’s say there’s was a global nuclear war that wiped out all life on earth, if you use your power and it’s gives a worsening result then it would be like instead of everyone dying they instead live forever in agony.
There’s no situation where it makes sense to use it if it has a truly equal likelihood of improvement vs. worsening
This is a fairly subjective question. But I’d use it to become the greatest day trader in history. 24.01 hours ago, purchase contracts and stop losses on exceptionally leveraged positions. Worst case scenario, I 0 my account, which holds only as much money as I’m willing to lose. Best case scenario, I earn several times my initial investment. Effectively, I’ve doubled my chances. Even the worst trader in the world would earn reasonable money with a “double or nothing” on an account they already know will turn to nothing.
