Thought Experiment - Blog Posts

But how do I communicate yes and no? What if head nods mean fuck you and then they'll feel attack and attack me? What if ✓ is a slur to them? Thumbs up means some very kinky stuff?

I've actually had time to sit and talk about this with another person instead of making my own head spin in circles, and though I'm not sure this is the answer you really want, this is the one we came up with together.

You don't even go to the island in the first place. You leave them be.

Assuming the meteorite doesn't kill them, whatever pathogens you carry onto the island certainly will. They are an uncontacted tribe, last I checked I don't know if that has changed in the last several years, meaning they may not have had the same chance of building immunity to the modern illnesses of the wider world.

As far as communication goes should leaving the island and it's people alone is just not be an option, assuming they don't kill you on sight, it'll be extremely difficult. Pictograms would be easiest, as you could try to show maybe the sun or another star falling from the sky. At the very least, there is a chance they could recognize that. And unfortunately, we decided that there probably is no maybe. If you go to the island and tell them the sky is falling, that kind of has to be it.

Okay, okay. even if this was lucid dreaming, it's still murder. If i were to put you in a hyper-realistic VR game of your life, and you didn't know that I did so, and thought everyone around you was real, and alive, and you killed someone, is that not murder? You, from your perspective, caused harm and loss of life to a living, breathing person, even if that was not the case. So it is still technically murder. Hilarious. But still murder

I’m glad ppl on tiktok are doing ok