It’s a bit dark, but I think suicide would become extremely common. Born in a third world country? Reroll. Born as the wrong gender? Mulligan. Getting old? Refresh. etc.
It would probably cause a lot of chaos in society.
I think there would probably be a stigma around it unless there’s a good reason, with people going out of their way to prove that they died naturally. I guess you’d have to memorize a secret phrase or something to prove you’re the same person.
Also, would people even want to have kids, if it’s just some random old person’s mind? Not really sure how I would feel about that.
And what happens when the population decreases? Would everyone just be waiting in a queue to be born, or would they actually die? Either way, choosing to not have kids would become a bit of a tragedy of the commons.
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It’s a bit dark, but I think suicide would become extremely common. Born in a third world country? Reroll. Born as the wrong gender? Mulligan. Getting old? Refresh. etc.
It would probably cause a lot of chaos in society. I think there would probably be a stigma around it unless there’s a good reason, with people going out of their way to prove that they died naturally. I guess you’d have to memorize a secret phrase or something to prove you’re the same person.
Also, would people even want to have kids, if it’s just some random old person’s mind? Not really sure how I would feel about that.
And what happens when the population decreases? Would everyone just be waiting in a queue to be born, or would they actually die? Either way, choosing to not have kids would become a bit of a tragedy of the commons.