Every child born has a flat increase of 0.0005% higher IQ, and is also 0.0003% more altruistic.
I really should have done the math ahead of time. That'd mean an increase of like 70k IQ per year.
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Compassion
Initial thought:
Everyone is nudged slightly closer to what they need to live comfortable lives
For people with very low quality of life, their life gets slightly better For people with very high quality of life, their life gets imperceptibly worse (but then also slightly better as the world around them has improved, since they make up such a tiny fraction of people)
"more realistic" thought: The human brain is slightly less prone to addiction - however slight this adjustment needs to be to be considered a small thing.
Less social media addiction, less harmful substance addiction, less sugar addiction, less gambling addiction.
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Three more genies.
The conservative ideology to include a prevalence of rational discourse and a functional sense of cognitive dissonance. Am I allowed to wish for that? Let's make it permentant.
the extinction of mankind
Social media never happened. It will not happen.
That whole business of brainwashing, of lowest common denominator, of selling yourself for likes - scourge of our times.
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no more hiccuping
Inherent self interest disappears. People work for the greater good.
would need to be more specific, plenty of evil organisations believe they are working for the greater good (ISIS, Nazis etc)
Psychologically that would be a desaster. People would wear themselves out in an instant, and in 6 months top we'd have a world population suffering from clinical depression.
As an American, one of the most positive things that could happen to the world is the abolishment of the United States as a government. We're directly or indirectly responsible for most of the ethnic cleansing that has gone on the last several decades.
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End speciesism