Rules:
- History of the world before your birth remains the same; only events happing after your birth can be changed.
- The other version of you must still be alive, you cannot go to a world that you are dead in. (This essentially forces you to murder/abduct your alt-self, so travelling has a ethical cost to it 😉)
- There may be other multiverse travellers out there
(Btw, is it ethical to murder an alternate version of your self? Is that even murder or just self-harm technically?)
Imagine having the power but not the ability because you’re the last one left.
Why would I have to abduct my alternate? Can’t I just make a living for myself in the the other universe? I’d be going to one that had much more liberal ideas about identity and needing money. I’m old enough that decisions made during my lifetime could* have lead to fairly different state if lefty / anarchist forces had been more successful than oligarchs and right-wing reactionaries.
*I’m assuming the point of multiverses is they don’t need to be highly likely, just logically possible.
I go from universe to universe collecting all the copies of me, then we get together and decide which one will be the easier to take over, then we take over that universe. Then we either rule as a hive mind or I kill the disloyal versions of me
Considering I was born with a deadly genetic illness that would eliminate me from most universes with out very advanced medicine so this might be a difficult task, unless I guess I’m the only genetically flawed version
I’m not seeing any reason to harm my other self.
If we were concerned about ID, we could just take turns leaving the house. We’d discuss any differences we could find between the universes, maybe eventually the self that started in that universe could hop to a third one… infinite hotel style.
But I think the best option would be for the two of us to become a magician.
About the ethics of murder or other crimes in alternate universes : I actually pondered this quite a bit before. Imagine a world where accessing parallel realities is accessible to everyone (wether it be time traveling or “booking” a divergent universe to do as you wish). Well it could be morally accepted that it’s an OK means of stress relief to insult, vandalize, harm, kill torture in these realities (as long as you behave in the main reality). My conclusion is that hurting people is wrong, even if you can revert the timeline or delete the universe as if you hadn’t done anything. Hurting people in the moment is wrong even if there are no consequences on the world around you, because there is still a lasting change on yourself.
Knowing my ass i’d just go to meet another version of myself to have another set of eyes on a problem/subject to study that understands my twisted way of thinking. Fix that problem and then leave.
Can I go to a universe whose me is not there (in another universe)? Can I go to a universe that has another me but the original me from that universe is dead?
Alternatively can we all (along a finite curve) go to existence record 3.50 where we over throw all the nations governments by our collective numbers redirect the governments to both properly steward the environment, and create social safety nets. Once we do one, we will snowball and tackle another universe slowly adding tasks and learning as we go and work on creating a wormhole that replicates our natural ability so that we can visit the ones where we are dead.
I am from an ethnic group with lots of unrelated twins. (I have many people pointing out my “brothers”.) I will wear different clothing and no one will notice.
The Council of Sanctus will convene on the multiversal date of 4829E26. The meeting will discuss the importance of jams on a variety of grain derivatives.
Why would I be forced to murder myself in an alternate universe by existing in it simultaneously?
Since I cannot travel to a universe where my alternate self is dead, what happens after they die in their universe if I cannot exist in it without them?
Did you recently watch “The One”?
This. I don’t understand why murdering your alt-self is “necessary”. Wouldn’t you actually want to preserve your alternate-self at all costs, to ensure you can continue to make return trips?
The real issue here is that - if your home reality works by the same rules - once you leave it, you can never return home ever, because no alternate version of yourself exists in the one you originated from after you leave it.
Before you say “hey, that sounds awesome, this place sucks!”, consider that finding a better reality is not guaranteed.
No, I watched Dark Matter (the 2024 show)
This prompt is based of it (its not exactly how the rules are in the show, but I modified it to increase the ethical dilemma)
what happens after they die in their universe if I cannot exist in it without them?
If they die, they just die, you can still leave, but you won’t be able to go back there again, neither can any versions of “you”.
There can be unlimited number of “you” in a world, but that can cause issues with the world. I mean, think about it, the authorities are gonne be like “WTF” since you never had a twin on record. And problems go even further if there are like 3, 4, or 5 versions of you existing in the same world. The world doesn’t care, but like, the authorities are gonna put you in a blacksite and run experiments on you. I mean, unless you can find a world where the other “you” doesn’t care that you have the face as them, and just poped out of thin air and there is no birth record of you.
I mean, if another version of me just appeared, I’m gonna feel threatened and probably kill him for self defence (so he doesn’t get ideas to try to take my place).
Edit: Unrelated, but the 2015 Dark Matter is also great, whole different premise, and its also interesting to watch.
Bro I’ve never seen tell on themselves using a science fiction forum thread prompt 💀
You do you. I would just hide my other self, but if you want to kill them… that’s on you
I just finished watching Dark Matter and I have zero desire to go to travel the multiverse. I’ll stay right where I am thank you very much.
