Timeline for Portals to Parallel Earths: Economic Effects
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| Apr 14, 2019 at 4:27 | answer | added | Marbrand | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 14, 2019 at 4:14 | answer | added | Ville Niemi | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 14, 2019 at 3:37 | comment | added | Marbrand | If I kill my doubles do I become more powerful? | |
| Apr 13, 2019 at 15:50 | comment | added | Ventifacts and Yardangs | @Agrajag haha, yeah, well, in theory someone could add some economic effects to the chat. I mostly just wanted to ask Vakus for some clarifications without adding 20 comments to this chain. But if anyone thinks of another economic effect of the technology, by all means! I doubt we've covered all the possibilities already. | |
| Apr 11, 2019 at 23:06 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | @JBH We'd run out of featured questions, this one popped up in a reference and parasitically posessed my neocortex. This thread is a kind of therapy for me. The chat room is particularly cathartic: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/92314/… Economics, hmmm.... that's about money right? | |
| Apr 11, 2019 at 22:51 | answer | added | Chuck Ramirez | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 11, 2019 at 19:12 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | @Pelinore Hey I'm not one that put the bounty up, and with a question like this I need to include a lot of details. Otherwise I'd be flooded with questions about specifics and a great deal of the answers will be operating under different (not necessarily compatible) assumptions about how this mcguffin works. | |
| Apr 11, 2019 at 15:26 | comment | added | Ventifacts and Yardangs | I had a lot more I wanted to discuss about this, so I made a chat. Anyone who has points to make that aren't quite "answers," is still confused by the concept, or just generally want to brainstorm cool possibilities of this tech can head over there. | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 1:01 | comment | added | Pelinore | Good grief! I'm not reading all that! can you not compress it into something a bit more succinct? ~ & why the bounty when you already had at least 3 detailed answers? | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 6:33 | answer | added | Shadow1024 | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Apr 7, 2019 at 22:39 | comment | added | JBH | Agrajag... you put a bounty on a question that's obviously too broad for today's rules? Don't you realize that answering about the effects on a global economy requires writing a textbook for a decent answer? (Please tell me you've taken any college economics course....) | |
| Apr 7, 2019 at 22:13 | answer | added | Penguino | timeline score: 8 | |
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| Dec 8, 2015 at 22:26 | history | edited | Vakus Drake | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 8, 2015 at 6:25 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | Yeah I suppose so but you could still plagiarize the content then and get your money anyway, interestingly if corporations weren't as successful at working together, it might cause smaller companies to take off, hell the most effective companies might be like a dozen people (who were all friends and could trust each other) collaborating with hundreds of their doubles to produce high quality material in as little as weeks. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 6:01 | comment | added | user867 | @VakusDrake Perhaps. Or, maybe they could hire your guys out from under you, and take all the profits for themselves! (Stupid, yes. But it'd work 50% of the time, and at least some people would try it. After all, the universes start to diverge once the portal exists; Your double is not you, and will diverge from you more with every passing year.) | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 5:41 | history | edited | Vakus Drake | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 8, 2015 at 5:31 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | @sdrawkcabdear Lets assume when I say the portals are in the exact same location in both worlds that means no free energy and as I said in the question it can't be used to save travel time. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 5:30 | answer | added | sdrawkcabdear | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 5:30 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | @user867 Yes but since the double versions of companies could share the fruits of their labors it would be worth their time to collaborate since they would both profit potentially. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 5:19 | answer | added | AndreiROM | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 5:18 | comment | added | user867 | The "collaborating with doubles" thing seems like it wouldn't work as well as you'd think it would. You'd still have to pay all the doubles as individuals (they all have to eat, after all), so it wouldn't cost any less than paying two different people. You could argue that the double is going to be paid by your double - but then, in a very real sense, they're not working for you; They're working for your double - who presumably is only as likely to share the profits of their employee's work as you are. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 5:17 | comment | added | sdrawkcabdear | Dumb physics point - Are portals in the exact same location relative to the earth's center or the sun's center or something else? Either if you can shift the location of the reference point slightly or the earth relative to the reference point slightly you can generate infinite energy? | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 2:03 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | Just to clarify each new portal you open connects to an identical world to our own which diverges from there. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 1:42 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | The opening of the first portal actually is what causes them to diverge. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 1:42 | history | edited | Vakus Drake | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 8, 2015 at 1:42 | comment | added | Nathan Griffiths | Or does the opening of the portal itself cause the worlds to diverge? | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 1:41 | comment | added | Nathan Griffiths | @VakusDrake yes sorry I missed that - however I don't think that makes sense then. Isn't the premise of a many worlds scenario that the other world must have already diverged from our own to exist at all, it cannot be identical when the portal opens? | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 1:41 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | Yeah I suppose my situation is a bit unique since the world's only diverge after you open the first portal between them. Only going to worlds basically the same as our own doesn't allow you to do as much. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 1:38 | comment | added | Nathan Griffiths | Also, it's not quite the same as your scenario but the book "The Long Earth" covers some similar ground about socio-economic effects of people being able to access an infinite number of parallel Earths. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 1:38 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | @Nathan You misread the question, new portals open to worlds that are exactly identical to our own, they only diverge once the portal opens, since the first portals were opened a few years ago no world you go to will have had longer than that to diverge | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 1:35 | comment | added | Nathan Griffiths | I'm not that familiar with the details of the many worlds idea, but you mention "doubles" a couple of times - isn't the most likely case in a many worlds scenario that most of the portals will open to worlds where you don't exist (given the unlikelihood of you existing at all). Or is there something about the portals that make them tend to open into relatively "close" parallel worlds? If not, one possibility is that most portals to a random parallel Earth open onto a world where humans don't exist at all, maybe not even any life. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 1:18 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | I mean U.S. currency | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 1:16 | comment | added | Frostfyre | When you say "130 grand", are you meaning 130,000 USD? "Grand" may not mean the same thing to everyone and there are several different countries represented on WB. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 1:00 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | This question concerns the economic effects of this technology future, future aspects of this setting will be in future questions | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 0:48 | history | asked | Vakus Drake | CC BY-SA 3.0 |