It could be 101: the first a surprise, the next 100 to establish a meaningful statistical correlation.
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2025
659 points (98.5% liked)
tumblr
4626 readers
177 users here now
Welcome to /c/tumblr, a place for all your tumblr screenshots and news.
Our Rules:
-
Keep it civil. We're all people here. Be respectful to one another.
-
No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry. I should not need to explain this one.
-
Must be tumblr related. This one is kind of a given.
-
Try not to repost anything posted within the past month. Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.
-
No unnecessary negativity. Just because you don't like a thing doesn't mean that you need to spend the entire comment section complaining about said thing. Just downvote and move on.
Sister Communities:
-
/c/[email protected] - Star Trek chat, memes and shitposts
-
/c/[email protected] - General memes
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Iirc, you can write how the person behaves before death on the death note. You can easily write your own life fanfic and peaceful death there to ensure you don't get Raito'd or L'd in the meantime
I think there was a pretty short limit on how far in the future you could write someone's death.
No but the longer the time is that you describe the mor reasonable the actions have to be for the person to be.
So you can make a police officer shoot some random people but you can't make him save a black child /s
load more comments
(2 replies)
Also, if the circumstances described are impossible, it will default to a heart attack.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
Remember, when someone unexpectedly kicks the bucket. That leads to a power vaccuum. Instead, you got to go after the middle managers. The people who carry out a politican's agenda. In theory, another faction would be able to capitalize on the situation. While taking out some politicans would be a net beneft, the fallout would be terrible. A civil war in nuclear armed Russia? Another Middle East war?
Now when it comes to billionaries and the other parasites. Take those fuckers out. The World doesn't have to worry about a corporate power vaccuum taking everyone down like a civil war in a country.
load more comments
(4 replies)
I think I have to disagree on this one. Whether or not you believed it would work is irrelevant. The malicious intent is what matters here. You happened to find a supernaturally accursed notebook titled "Death Note" and you decide to write someone's name in it? That already crosses the moral line imo, independent of any actual effects.
Counterarguments welcome.
If I say, "Damn him!" about someone, and it turns out that Hell is real and that saying that actually causes people to be sent to Hell, am I morally culpable for that? Let's say I attempt to hex someone, knowing full well that it doesn't work, but just using it as a way to express my frustrations - but then it turns out hexes are real and I actually hexed them?
You can't read in a significant malicious intent if a person takes an action that they have every reason to believe is harmless.
I'd recommend reading some of The Illustrated Guide to Law which covers relevant concepts, albeit from a legal perspective rather than a moral one
:::spoiler spoiler
The intent is the important part, I think. When you say "damn him!" you (I imagine) aren't actually thinking of damning that person to hell, and seeing if it works.
It's more like pointing a gun you're pretty sure isn't loaded at someone's head and pulling the trigger. Even if you thought it wasn't loaded, you know exactly what you're doing if it happens to be.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Is it malicious intent of you write your own name in it?
Step one to claiming ownership of a notebook, TBF.
If you write "person xyz dies in a month" you have plenty of time to write down thousands of names before the first one dies, and in all this time you can always make the reasonable assumption that it won't work anyways.
I wonder if you could feed the paper into a printer and have some LLM without guardrails print out the names and likenesses of all the wealthy people on earth so they all die at once..
The rules don’t say you can’t do that, you just need to write the name and have the image of the person in mind, and this might just fulfill those requirements, if just looking at someone while writing would do it. It’s not like you are capable of a perfect representation in your mind anyway, so ai might be close enough..
I feel like that’s morally fairly clean since you didn’t do anything but fill a paper tray and write a prompt..
I don't think outsourcing to a machine would get you morally off the hook though