05-26-2021, 03:21 PM | #21 |
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Re: Would you want this superpower?
Seems there are lots of situations that my original idea didn't cover, but let me address some of them:
- You can make shorter jumps to break up a long travel, like stopping in Istanbul, Mumbai and Hong Kong on the way from London to Wellington, and you can eat, drink and sleep in these places to prepare for the next leg of the journey. - Travel time is calculated based on how a law-abiding and health-and-safety-conscious person would get where you want to go, under the conditions that face a person traveling the mundane way. So, you're slowed by rush traffic, and can't take shortcuts by speeding. - To go somewhere you're not normally allowed, time taken is based on how a person with access/authority would get where you want to go. Imagine you have a bank director over for dinner. When you activate the power, he/she could walk out of your house, drive downtown, walk into the bank, unlock the vault and go inside, just as you pop back into existence right next to them. You might even be there already, if they got distracted along the way. - You don't need to have an actual vehicle available. As long as the infrastructure is in place (roads, airports, harbors...), you can calculate travel time and cost as if you had an appropriate vehicle. In other words, you don't have to bring your car to work to avoid having to walk home. - For the purposes of this thought experiment, your bank doesn't care how you spend your money, and will allow you to overdraw your account, within reason. - If you're on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific, you'd better know where you can stop on the way home. A speedboat could come by the island and pick you up, but it might not get you anywhere useful before you die.
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05-26-2021, 03:25 PM | #22 | |
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05-26-2021, 03:54 PM | #23 | |
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05-26-2021, 04:12 PM | #24 |
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Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Would you want this superpower?
Yes, but if I can just trade time/money normally for getting past problems, why am I bothering with the power?
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05-26-2021, 06:38 PM | #25 |
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Re: Would you want this superpower?
Oh, and to answer the question posed. NO
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05-26-2021, 07:37 PM | #26 | |
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Also, these bank records do create a record of how far and when you've travelled and thus compromise the "secret" nature of this travel resource.
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05-27-2021, 06:52 AM | #27 | |
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05-27-2021, 09:34 AM | #28 |
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Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Would you want this superpower?
I will say this sort of power seems like it would be interesting to study, though it appears that it could be implemented as "you turn bodily control over to an autopilot that gets you where you want to go".
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05-27-2021, 11:03 AM | #29 | |
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Also, I thought of another potential legitimate use (or unexpected delay/expense, depending on how the power works). While I don't typically travel to busy enough destinations for this to be an issue, I know in many places it's difficult and time-consuming to find a convenient place to park. If the power can treat you as though you dropped yourself off at the curbside of wherever you were going, you can avoid that issue, allowing you to actually reach your destination a bit faster than you would otherwise (still a net loss in terms of age, unless the parking situation where you are going is so bad it actually takes more time to find a parking spot and walk to your destination than it took to reach it in the first place).
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05-27-2021, 12:53 PM | #30 | |
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Will people look for these sorts of clues? They wiil if you're ever caught on surveillance camera somewhere that can't be explained in proximity to an important event. I'm still probably safe going to the grocery store. No one will look for how I got there.
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