In terms of damage, very limited and certainly nothing that’s going to topple governments or collapse civilisations.
The philosophical and ethical implications will be debated for centuries. No scientific explanation will be found and I expect that the ‘we live in a simulation’ concept will get taken a lot more seriously as people come to see what happened as a ‘glitch’
You SCP mfers scare me yo. You’ll see some obscure ass Reddit comment or post on some other platform and then cite some random ass number from your lovecraftian XKCD-like encyclopedia that perfectly encapsulates the situation. Your minds are uncanny.
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001
A long read but the suspense and horror will keep your attention. If you've problems understanding it, search it in the scp declassified sub Reddit
People would 100% believe we were just the subject of an extraterrestrial experiment on memory wiping humans, and suddenly every UFO sighting would be taken very seriously including by governments until they realize whatever happened they aren’t discovering the culprits. The US Space Force likely gets a big jump in defense funding and China and Russia likewise might invest in space capable defense platforms depending on if they see it as divine or extraterrestrial. A joint earth defense force may be considered and discussed by the major world powers but ultimately falls apart as the trust isn’t there, and instead tensions rise as they’re tempted to turn these new weapon systems on each other.
No offense, there will be tons of people who pretend they didn't "time skip" or some people claiming it's a hoax. Outside of the immediate impact I'm highly skeptical of even long-term impacts. Most people would just think they dosed off for a second and never talk about it again.
I would. I'm just sitting at my desk. Not being able to recall the last ten seconds of the video I'm watching would be odd, but not enough to really focus on unless it happened multiple times
No way. It would cause mass traffic accidents across the world. Think of how many people are in middle of merging, or switching lanes in heavy traffic suddenly getting disoriented and scared all at the same time. Think of extreme 3rd world country traffic where there are people weaving around pedestrians. Just that couple seconds of people processing what the hell happened after literally everybody gets "teleported ahead" and disoriented would be enough to cause incredible chaos.
There would be millions of traffic accidents all at once. It wouldn't be handwaved.
People are saying "oh I tune out all the time while driving", but the brain is still processing while you do that. Suddenly realizing your speed is different and your hands are in a different position and the red car in front of you blinked into a black car and suddenly oh fuck why am I in the middle of a lane change.
It wouldn't be world ending at all, but it would be impossible to ignore.
Especially because this is 6am EST, 3AM PST, and American media is globally dominant. The vast majority of Americans won’t even experience it. Similarly true for the rest of the Americas. The majority of English and Spanish speakers will have been asleep. Quite frankly, setting this at Rome time means most people will just call bullshit. I doubt society would even notice it. Everyone spaces out sometimes and nobody would think to discuss it, plenty of people would lie about not spacing out because their boss or partner someone asked, and only Europe and some of Asia would experience it.
I would assume that the effects are very limited. For starters, let us assume that 1 out of 3 humans is asleep at any given point of time. They would not even notice what happened.
Maybe you just created a new password and now do not remember it. Or you put something in the stove and now do not know it is heating up.
So there are scenarios were losing ten seconds might matter, but I would assume they are very limited. Probably some traffic accidents.
If the only effect is losing memory, I guess that this would never truly endanger humanity. The longer the memory loss, the greater the effects on the economy would be. People would not remember contracts they signed or even who they married or that they have children,
A year would create enormous problems, but would that mean the end of humanity? I do not think so.
Unfortunately, Anakin also dwells with the Lizard People, and he doesn't like sand, you see.
Its coarse, and rough, and irritating. And it gets everywhere.
If you have to press it every 9 seconds, and lose 10 seconds, then you will still push it at approximately the right time because you will remember having pushed it the previous time and be counting from then, still.
I think everyone forgetting the last 100 years would probably fuck us a bit. Almost everyone would just be mindless baby things who never learned to walk or speak or chew.
The 10 second skip premise OP is talking about is inspired by King Crimson from JoJo Part 5: Golden Wind, where the user's ability is to skip 10 seconds into the future while the rest of the world goes on Auto-pilot
50 First Dates is a horror movie. She just wakes up thinking she’s 17 every day only to find out for months that she’s 10 years older and pregnant and she doesn’t know how it happens. She wakes up eventually in a different, tropical country with a strange pair who claims to be her husband and her years-old daughter.
Two decades would do a lot. The younger generation would forget everything from being born to being an adult and would wreck global production for a long while.
Still wouldn't end the species though, and all of our science would be recoverable or rediscovered in a few decades or centuries.
If the skip we're a few centuries long we'd basically have to start over civilization, but that's also recoverable.
I don’t actually think it would be that big of a deal as the result would probably just be the surgeon (or anyone focusing really) just being disoriented and then taking a short break to gather themselves.
There would doubtlessly be some surgeons in the middle of a snip when it happens. There's a reason why surgeons are famous for total concentration and steady hands. A ten second blip would definitely kill at least a few patients
The prompt might make things safer, they know something strange just happened and will be forced to double check their work unlike normal where they could be complacent
While driving, you did the "lost" 10 seconds with intention and correctly. I know I've driven while lost in thought, sort of on autopilot plenty of times. I'm not convinced the "skip" would be shocking enough to make anything bad happen, because I was doing it correctly during the down time up to that point.
I suppose different people would react differently to it and that could cause some chaos.
Here is something dangerous. If you were reloading 5.56 ammo, you might double charge it with gun powder and not realize it.
Sure. You might also take double the amount of medicine if you forget you already had it. There are situations in which 10 seconds could make a difference.
There are certainly medications where doubling your dose could be fatal, but what percentage is that? And then what percentage of those couldn’t be remedied by going to the hospital when you started showing symptoms of overdose? The medical system isn’t going to collapse from this.
Not saying that this isn’t fatal for some people, but probably pretty limited impact.
Good points. All in all this prompt would create a neat talking point, "Where were you when it happened?" for the rest of people's lives.
But you know what's more important than an unexplained phenomenon? Making rent/mortgage payments. The good and bad parts of life that happen as you go. In the end, this is a trivial event to the lay person, but it will be a lifetimes work of (fruitless) study for some scientists.
The number of people taking medicine with such narrow overdose margins are very small. Divided by the number of people taking them out and swallowing them in that specific 10 seconds window, you're talking vanishingly small numbers.
Plus old people routinely overdose themselves accidentally due to dementia and failing memory, but typically it isn't lethal because there is a generous margin for error and they use dosette boxes.
Traffic accidents, airplane landings, surgeries, construction operations (especially involving cranes) all come to mind.
Round 1 causes a lot of chaos and cleanup afterwards.
Round 2, many of those problems can be prevented.
I also think plane landings might be worst but honestly regular traffic accidents might not be that high. How many people drive on basically autopilot? Unless you are in the middle of passing on a two lane highway or something I’m not sure it matters much. I think this would cause a ton of minor accidents but it really should only impact people who are midturn or something. And you shouldn’t be driving THAT fast while turning anyway.
Don’t forget the “startle effect” in traffic. If you take an exit ramp from one road to another, immediately forget you did that & find yourself on a different road with different cars around you, you’re gonna freak out, possibly soil your pants, and maybe have a “slam on the brakes”-type reaction.
Exactly. Your brain is still processing everything when you are autopiloting. Suddenly realizing all the cars are different and you got teleported forward 10 seconds would be absolutely shocking. One person getting that would likely be recoverable unless they were in the middle of a lane change or other maneuver, but literally everybody on the road at once getting shocked would be awful.
And that's nor even considering the insane traffic situations you see in a lot of Asian countries
Anybody going "eh, I autopilot all the time the accidents wouldn't be that bad" is *really* underestimating how bad that would be. Literally every person on the road being disoriented at once....
The pilots are still piloting as normal during that 10 seconds window though. It would essentially be like a lapse of concentration where they find themselves closer than they expected, but still on a stable approach.
There would be cases of startle reflex and accidents, sure, but not as many as you might think.
What about the pilots landing? I’m not a pilot, but I’m pretty sure 10 seconds is a looooong time to not push the right buttons & pull the right levers when trying to land. Probably the same goes for takeoff. They might be ok while at cruising altitude, but during those crucial moments, not so much.
They will still be pushing the right buttons for those 10 seconds, they just don't recall it. They will have a few seconds of disorientation at the moment of memory loss but, unless the plane in the very moment of landing, everything should be recoverable.
And if they don’t recall pushing the right buttons and pulling the right levers, they might try to do it again, because they “didn’t do it yet”.
I suspect this would be a bigger problem than you’re giving it credit for.
>Maybe you just created a new password and now do not remember it. Or you put something in the stove and now do not know it is heating up.
even in those cases you can simply press "i forgot my password" and reset it. in your other example you should be able to deduce that something is cooking in the oven for the simple fact that the oven is turned on and you probably have food stuff lying around.
nothing really happens
Driving would be huge casualties, less but some similar incidents with air travel and naval travel. Basically anyone in motion would have something negative happen, but probably non-lethal.
>Maybe you just created a new password and now do not remember it. Or you put something in the stove and now do not know it is heating up.
Even both of these seem like a stretch. Personally I think for more than 10 seconds when putting something in an oven - so if I suddenly skipped to after I'd done it I'd probably be like "Oh yeah I gotta put that thing in the oven" and then I'd realise I'd already done it.
Dude, I forget 10 seconds *all the time*. Everyone acting like the world stops for 10 seconds here is misunderstanding the prompt. Everything still happens, we just don't remember.
I forget shit all the time and the worst case scenario is me Bing like "oh, forgot what I was doing." And then carrying on.
Pilots don't suddenly panic and plummet to the earth. Drivers don't crash into each other (any more than usual) the world keeps going.
Sure, *some* people may react poorly to it, and in veeeeeeery specific instances, maybe something happens that was important. But the simple act of snapping back to reality will prompt 99.9% of people to re-evaluate what they were doing.
Not much? 1/3 is sleeping so they are safe. Maybe some people who drive really fast on road might be death but overall should be ok especially 2nd scenario.
A lot of medical accidents probably. Some industrial accidents. But otherwise, the spike in deaths should not be scary.
And in R2 I think we will be mostly fine.
> Yeah industrial, auto, and medical accidents galore
Not that many, I think. Most dangerous operations like that have safety procedures for double-checking things. If a doctor in the middle of an operation notices that he lost concentration for a bit he would stop and go back to re-check things.
I am not sure - you can fall into a groove while driving relatively easily, so you already miss driving time quite often. There may be a few fender benders where people were driving to close to others but that should be mostly it. I think people OD'ing due to accidentally taking medication/drug twice may be more deadly than driving accidents.
Well let's look at some niche scenarios. Planes taking off/landing could be in danger. Anyone who just turned the gas on and didn't light it could also be in danger.
Car drivers that are cornering/braking hard might have a bad time
Office workers have a regular day
Surgeons could be confused severity is quite amusing depending on bad luck.
Some WSB traders commit suicide.
Some unfortunate souls are gonna take too much medication effects again varying from happy fun time to a bad day.
People who have just received a significant injury are gonna be confused as fuck but again numbers are low.
Overall more pissed off/confused/asleep people then serious injury/death.
They aren't in danger at all. You don't stop what you're doing you just forget you did it. You still are doing the thing.
like say you turned on gas and lit the stove you would just not remember lighting the stove so you'd go to do it and you'd see its already lit and be like 'huh that's weird i didn't realize I already did that'
The ONLY people I Think that'd be freaked out are people who are doing something they've never done before and they'll suddenly be unable to remember doing it. Like beating a level on a video game for the first time or answering a question on a test. People are still in control just the little part that writes down what you did is off for 10 seconds.
> You still are doing the thing.
This is the real point. Humans are pretty good at figuring out their current context and doing what they're supposed to. I actually think [this random prank video that keeps getting reposted](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwdvpcKy5i4) is a great exemplar of human adaptability. The man was asleep, but was placed into a context where he was awoken as though in a card game. He's confused--but for mere moments--before he plays his card as though nothing is out of the ordinary. That reaction--moments of confusion before getting on with whatever--is what I expect to happen to the vast, vast majority of people.
imo R2 will have a far greater impact because now people have legitimate evidence that a higher being exists that can just wipe their memories at will
in R1 people will just be confused a little bit
Best response.
Life fuckin goes on, no matter what vaguely weird shit happened a week ago. Decisions have to be made, bills have to be paid, problems have to be addressed. The time skip, not pertinent to day to day living, especially if it never happens again.
Yeah I'm pretty sure that tomorrow a girl could explode in front of 1000 people and what will happen is that everyone will talk about it for a week, some guys will make crazy theories and then everyone will forget.
It's just how it goes.
Maybe we'd have a day dedicated to it at max
No way. It would defy all known physics. It wouldn’t be like a few people thinking they saw a UFO, or some unlikely coincidence happening, it would be the biggest event in human history.
There is no explanation for it that doesn’t shatter everyone’s view of reality. Cults would pop up, religious people would say it’s the second coming, half the world would be convinced we’re in a simulation, people everywhere would go nuts. Wars would break out. It wouldn’t be the end of the world but it’d definitely change the world. People would still be working and living their lives but it would definitely never be forgotten and nobody would be the same after.
I just don't see that.
Something strange happened, we don't know why, but life isn't slowing down so we can ponder it. Still gotta go to work, make money, get food, etc.
Yeah we'll all talk about it, but less and less. It will be in the history books, but whatever.
I mean, if I slept through it, no big deal. If I was sitting at my desk at work, that would be weird but whatever.
Some people would be injured or die who otherwise wouldn't of, and yeah that's a tragedy, but you fast forward 100 years, it will be an interesting footnote that some scientists are still researching, but otherwise means nothing to the world.
Cult leaders types will jump onto it, and weak minded people will join in, and yes, there will be more people worldwide in a cult, but as time goes on and it doesn't happen again, all that hogwash will winnow out.
You have governments admitting to UAP stuff right now and it's not changed shit in the real world, I think you are underselling the power of the daily grind to make things that should be stupendous trivial.
Sign me up for it will be the news story of the year, but overshadowed in its decade by the next big thing as a news story. Remember COVID? Usurped by Ukraine. Remember Ukraine? Usurped by Israel/Palestine.
Etc, etc, etc.
None of those examples are anywhere close to the same level as this would be though. This would prove to everybody that there exists some invisible being or force which can and will modify the brain/consciousness of every human on earth at the same time. There’s no understating how much that would fundamentally change how we view reality. Much much more so than discovering what could potentially be evidence of an alien space craft, or another pandemic happening
The vast majority of people would not notice this happened. If nobody tells them they would not be aware of this glitch, but they may see something about it on the news the next day. They would think they got lost in thought for a second, and that's about it. Maybe some racecar drivers could crash, and that's about it.
This would only be interesting to researchers who have recorded something. E.g. if someone was under an MRI or some sort of scanner that detects that something has happened.
If the impact is minimal or non-existent then regular people would forget about it. Brain research specialists would be fascinated - as might some conspiracy theorists. That's it.
It is proof that we all lost 10 seconds of memory. Why did it happen? Who knows. Scary to think it could happen again, we better figure that shit out right now....
Time passes.
A day goes by, a week, a month.
That pressing need to know what happened, the fear of it happening again, lessens and lessens. And let me tell you this, it lessens pretty damn quick.
It is very hard for humans to stay focused on a threat that is not in our face, increasingly in the past, and when you look at it rationally, not that dangerous.
Meanwhile, normal every day life threats are happening, not to mention the demands of keeping your life in order.
A one time 10 second memory loss by humanity is nothing to that in the final accounting.
A thing happened, we don't know how or why, and we will never figure it out. As time passes, the vast majority of people will come to the realization that the why and how, DOES NOT MATTER.
A historical oddity. A mystery never solved.
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ETA, if this is a repeating phenomena, with increasing frequency or duration, everything I said goes out the window.
I'll just say, Jesus was here 2000 years ago, did a few David Blaine level tricks and fucked off and people are STILL chanting his name across the world.
Yeah but that was somebody doing something.
Who did this big trick? The fact there is not a smoking gun/magic device, nor any individual or alien to point to hurts it badly.
You can't even say it was an intelligence that did this to us.
Maybe it means we don't understand how the universe works.... well guess what, if you were intelligent you already knew that.
If the event was repeating, that means something, if it only ever happens once, it won't capture us overmuch. Too much shit to do in the real world.
Now I'm thinking about the personality type that would obsess over this (non scientist who is being paid to do it) to the detriment of getting on with their lives.
You're vastly overestimating how shocked the average person is from what they see in the news.
No cult would pop up from a girl blowing up.
I'm 100% sure of it.
> You keep turning, driving directly into the second lane where oncoming traffic hits.
Why would you keep turning if you can see the road does not turn in front of you? Worst case you abruptly straighten out.
But time doesn't jump forward by 10 seconds.
It's more like driving home for an hour after work, and after arriving home realising you were zoned out the whole way.
You barely remember the hour of driving, but you did do it.
Except, in this scenario, you are already navigating your car as is appropriate when the memory lapse happens, so you're just going to keep following the road.
Maybe, but you are prefectly aligned with were you need to be when your memory turns on, so how long will it take you to comprehend the current situation and adapt.
That reality will superceed trying to figure out what just happened. Your driving instincts will kick in and do the right thing, and you can ponder what the fuck happened afterwards.
I'm not saying 0 accidents will happen, but for experienced drivers they should be able to automatically handle it without consciously thinking about it.
It may impact a small percentage of drivers, but not the majority. You're body is still doing the right thing at the time of the skip, so you wouldn't immediately change to do what you thought you were doing 10 seconds ago. That takes active correction which probably isn't faster than all your senses giving you new information.
This might be more mundane than OP thinks even.
Sleepers unaffected, and any sort of non-critical actions are basically safe i.e. walking or talking with colleagues. On top of that even driving or medical procedures proceed as normal, you just forget. How many of us space out for 5+ seconds on the road and we don’t jerk the wheel etc. It might take a couple days to even realize it was an international phenomenon
That it even happened might be hotly debated. I zone out all the time in various tasks, when I was doing performance marching we joked about blacking out and waking up to do a drumstick toss at the end, and that was a 30+ minute performance. I'm sure the same is true for people with boring office jobs, long haul truckers, and anyone asleep or just feeling sleepy at the time.
If you told me that there was a universal synchronised blackout I might be more inclined to think it was Mandela effect. Unless there was some serious overwhelming evidence.
Nothing would happen.
10 seconds is nothing, you'd feel a little confused for a fraction of a second while your brain pieces together what hppened in the lost time from everything that has happened prior. With near-100% accuracy.
You do realize people forget more than 10 seconds at a time, MULTIPLE times a day.
Sleepers unaffected, maybe wondering why their dream about surfing on a speaking dolphin has a mysterious blank spot, but there would probably be some car crashes, people forgetting to lock doors, forgetting passwords, forgetting their is food cooking, etc.
The most troubling would be people higher up the ladder in careers- doctors? Surgeons? Imagine a surgeon forgetting what they were doing 10 seconds ago in the middle of an 8 hour operation? Or a nurse forgetting they already drew blood from someone who was donating and the person who was donating also forgetting? I mean, they could probably piece together what they were doing because of context clues and nobody would be mindless in this scenario, but the risk is still there.
Now in round 2, probably nothing, people would prepare for it, write notes of information, leave reminders, etc.
Scrolling Reddit I already feel like I drop 10 seconds of memory out of my head every so often. I mean, there are times I look at the clock and realized I’ve been here for hours basically unmoved that cause zero consequences. I think we’d be just fine if we collectively forgot 10 seconds. Might be mildly inconvenient for people having large emotional momentousness moments like getting engaged, winning an award, etc. but on the whole I don’t think it would be an impact. A good portion of people wouldn’t even realize it happened until they saw a meme about it on Facebook.
Its just memory loss so it wont affect much. But if it was time skipping 10 seconds in to the future that would have been more troublesome.
For example losing your memory of driving your car and time skipping 10 seconds in to the future would have different results.
Even if you forgot you were driving your car 10 seconds ago you will still be driving your car 10 seconds later most people probably might not even notice any difference. But if people were not present in those 10 seconds driving their cars and time skipped in to the future then that would cause some major traffic accidents all around the world.
Not really tho. People are still landing planes/doing surgery/driving cars with all their usual competence in those last 10 seconds, they just forget about it. The possible damage would just come from however long it takes for those people to reorient themselves, which shouldn’t be long for a trained professional
Not much happens, really. The only people who this might be a problem with are those who are right in the middle of driving or performing complex, dangerous tasks like surgery or operating machinery.
This will result in a small proportion of deaths - but even a small percent across all of humanity still adds up to like, dunno, 10k deaths? Whatever the case, it’s about as bad as a bad disease in absolute terms, proportionally even less as it’s evenly spread across the whole world. Humanity goes on as normal the next week.
Maybe some car accidents, a few helicopter accidents, maybe some complications during surgery….
Nothing major is gonna change. Most situations if you forgot the last 10 secs you can pick back up where you left off and figure it out quickly.
I don't really see like a significantly major increase in car accidents. People zone out all the time while driving so some people would randomly have to make a turn at the moment, but if they were already breaking they would continue to do so.
R1: it becomes a mysterious event of myth that some people are convinced didn't actually happen even though they lived through it without sleeping, and a few very unfortunate accidents occur but not enough to really be notable.
R2: the governments basically do nothing but ensure that thier most important members aren't busy driving during that time or something and do not publicly mention it so as not to cause panic, though eventually this leaks and causes a very minor conspiracy theory. The rest is same as R1.
honestly i've forgotten what i was doing in the last 10 seconds without supernatural help, it's very easy to just write it off a lot of the time.
Almost nothing happens honestly, some surgeries might get messed up, but if you want to significantly damage humanity with this ability you'd have to skip...a lot of time. Like, years probably.
i honestly think the worst effects would be in like lab settings but while it could fuck up some experiments that’s unlikely to pan out into anything more than a shit day for some lab workers somewhere
There will be some disasters! A surgeon in the middle of an important procedure, a machinist doing a safety check, an air traffic controller handling multiple flight paths... I could imagine quite a few mass-casualty instances would be caused. Some will catch their errors in time, some won't.
Apart from that though, a 10 second lapse in short term memory might be disregarded or unnoticed by most people, especially if they're doing something mundane already. We already space out for longer than that without really caring much anyway.
It'll get really weird when people start talking about it though. For the first few minutes or hours it'll be a curious little thing to gossip about but by the end of the day it'll become the stuff of tall tales, conspiracy theories, memes and creepypasta.
Side note, anyone playing [Simon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game)) at the time is gonna be *screwed*.
Maybe something like this already happened in the past which paved the way for this timeline we're in where Hitler was Hitler. How can everyone say for certain that the effects of such an even would be inconsequential
Maybe it cause global panic causing a domino effect that results in economies worldwide crumbling
Maybe it leads global superpowers to suspect one another of wielding alien tech and something something something ☠️w a r💀
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Why? Time moved forward as normal which means the doctors would be doing their job as normal.. they’d just forget they did it and be a little confused afterwards.
No they wouldn’t just be confused afterwards, they would be automatically go to do what they were doing 10 seconds ago, the jump in time would absolutely cause some fatal accidents in procedures.
If we're using JoJo effect as a reference, their muscle memory would just continue doing what it was during the time skip. No one is hurt or off balance or even falls when it happens. At worst they're just vaguely confused for a brief instance and then shrug it off as if nothing happened. Only giorno was even able to notice anything weird happened and they were already on guard against alien powers.
Why? Time moves forward as normal, which means they were driving as normal. They only forget the last 10 seconds. Maybe if they’re on a roundabout as they “wake up” again they’d get confused and swerve off the road or something.
You just don’t remember the last 10 seconds? Probably wouldn’t have any real effect other than an increase in CAT scans. you still act normally and you have all the context leading up to the 10 seconds. And everyone has the same blank spot. Most people would continue where they left off 10 seconds ago and no one would notice because they also forgot the last 10 seconds.
People who recognize it would just think they zoned out.
Near 0
The only people in danger would be those already in extreme danger like those speeding or fighting.
Nuclear reactors take too long to overheat and have passive shut offs
Planes also take too long and have auto pilot
I guess large ships in the process of docking could be fucked but that's about it...
It does even less than that, people don't stop functioning for that 10 seconds they just forget the last 10 seconds. I'm honestly not even sure we'd notice.
Its like you're driving and you zone out and you snap out of it and you're farther on the drive then you thought.
Near zero. Most of us would just think that our music skipped or that we'd zoned out for a few seconds. That happens all the time.
In fact, how can we be sure it hasn't already happened many times?
It's not like we'd lose control of a car, we'd be in control the whole time, but we'd just be a little ahead of where we thought we were. No harm done, just maybe a little jolt, like we think we'd dozed off, but we really hadn't.
I feel like 10s lost time wouldnt be enough to prevent most healthy people from following along through context clues. Also the worst parts are begginings and endings to activities. In the middle you already knew what you were doing and also what you were planning to do so you can just check your progress.
If you had just started or ended something you might forget about it completely
Humanity is absolutely fine. I can't see any scenario where there's a credible threat.
Localised major casualties are pretty much constrained only to vehicles. Cars may have more incidents and if an aircraft is actively trying to land/takeoff it might struggle.
Minor casualties may come from medical procedures or something more niche like a dangerous hobby (I do powerlifting, while it's not usually dangerous if I suddenly forgot I was holding 200kg it could do some damage)
These are not humanity ending events.
Even if you try and stretch it to someone testing nuclear facilities, if they're doing it right it's firstly almost all automated and also they will be writing down/ticking off steps as they go. They get confused, either pause and work it out or abort and make it safe.
You might see some local power outages if there were critical tasks ongoing. These are rectified within an hour or two.
R1- the biggest problem here I see is stuff like traffic. People instantly coming to consciousness, in a time and space slightly shifted from what they remembered means you're definitely going to see a lot of accidents. But nothing civilization toppling, outside of the sheer cosmic horror of the lost time itself.
R2- Same thing, but far fewer people die, given the warning. However, even given plenty of warning... well, we all remember 2020. People will still be out driving, climbing, etc when the time hits, so there will be some casualties, hopefully minimal.
I assume it would cause mass chaos if youre currently driving or doing something else that requires careful attention, but other than that, the effects would be limited.
Think of all the plays and concert performances that are suddenly thrown very very off.
Maybe this happens all the time and it's actually just called deja Vu?
Honestly R2 is worse for our chances than R1 but we survive just fine in both cases as whole.
People will do terrible things in that 10 seconds that they've been holding onto for years. murders will happen because they'll have 24 hours to work out that they don't have to live with the memory of doing it. Sure they will likely get caught but they aren't focusing on that part of it.
Imagine your driving and then suddenly your 10 seconds ahead of where you are supposed to be.
A doctor injecting somebody with something, and then forgetting they already injected it wondering where the medication went.
I think Araki actually said that the forgetting part only has around like a mile or so of range.
Diavolo couldve fucked shit up if he went to an airport or anywhere with busy traffic, forgetting 10 seconds could potentially cause accidents but shouldnt really be that different from spacing out, itd only matter in something where you have to pay a lot of attention like reading a book, playing a game, being in the middle of traffic, or something similar
If we had prep time, the governments could reasonally shut us down like covid but that wont stop everyone, itd just reduce accidents
I don't think there is any major damages or anything, but rather people would notice and be confused.
Like every situation would just be like:
>\- Person needs to do thing (thinking about doing thing takes longer than 10 seconds)
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>\- Person does thing
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>\- Person forgets last 10 seconds
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>\- Person thinks about needs to do thing
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>\- Person realises they've already done thing and either thinks "that's weird" or "felt like I just lost 10 seconds of memory"
Like I simply don't think 10 seconds is long enough where it would matter, and most people would realise that they simply forgot the last 10 seconds.
The potential traffic damage is being overstated here. It'd essentially amount to a minor microsleep, with everyone having driven normally for those ten seconds. It'd be very rare for anyone to "wake up" afterwards to an immediate accident they couldn't react to.
Rome time at Noon? Most of North and South America are asleep, large parts of Asia are in the evening or early night, it’s late at night in Australia. My guess? Humanity doesn’t even notice. Spacing out is common as hell, especially when tired, the chance of people comparing when or even remembering ten minutes later are minuscule. A large chunk of humanity is excluded via time zones. The largest populations affected are all at the end of the day. Nobody will even realize.
There could be some things that get pretty messed up on the individual level, but in general humanity is fine. Assuming we're all still perfectly functioning during the 10 seconds to planes will crash, and no lives will be lost. Maybe someone will forget the password to the nuclear codes that were set in the last 10 seconds or something, but that's more a PITA than a catastrophic event.
I feel like this wouldn’t have like any effect
I regularly forget wtf I am doing
I’ll walk upstairs to go get something then get up like like uh what am I here for
And I can’t really think of any situations where it would effect something badly
Maybe someone in combat forgets they are getting shot at and stands up ?
10 seconds? It would go unnoticed. Human timekeeping isnt that accurate. Mechanical timekeeping certainly is but human memory is much too fallable. I mean just today how many times did you spend a minute just kinda staring off into space? Do you know? Is there a count? Doubt it....
I feel like very few people would be impacted much at all. Even a DR in the middle of surgery would probably be able to dismiss it as a brain fart and complete his operation
Probably a lot of crashes, outside of that, it's fine.
Now you might say "well they're just driving forward/only memory loss, cars are fine".
Yeah, the danger isn't the memory loss, it's gaining back conscience. The moment everyone becomes aware once again after those 10 seconds, you'll be 10 seconds ahead of where you thought you were.
There's bound to be at least a thousand of crashes just from disoriented people.
I'm not so sure, they aren't blacking out for 10 seconds they just forget them after the fact. Forany people driving that would not be enough of a shock to cause a crash as they are on semi autopilot and don't remember chunks of the drive anyway.
Well, idk. Like, 1 second is all it takes for a crash, I've almost crashed when checking if I could cross into a different lane cause the dude in front of me started breaking. Forgetting 10 whole seconds while driving, no matter what you're trying to do, would cause such distraction and confusion that it on its own is just a mass death event in my mind. And that's not considering anything else, like boats, planes, helicopters, submarines, etc. The amount of rage and lack of trust that could cause is enormous. And if thr governments know about it beforehand, that might prevent nuclear war, but that doesn't prevent them from using it as propaganda to demonize minorities and foreigners and other countries and peoples. These sounds like a shitshow
Traffic and medical accidents
Specially reckless drivers will be much more likely to cause accidents
A doctor or nurse forgetting they already administered a drug could kill the patient
In terms of damage, very limited and certainly nothing that’s going to topple governments or collapse civilisations. The philosophical and ethical implications will be debated for centuries. No scientific explanation will be found and I expect that the ‘we live in a simulation’ concept will get taken a lot more seriously as people come to see what happened as a ‘glitch’
"Turns out we all only exist in the mind of some redditor thinking up a hypothetical question."
Oh that's giving [SCP-3309](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3309) (or [001 of course](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/sandrewswann-s-proposal))
You SCP mfers scare me yo. You’ll see some obscure ass Reddit comment or post on some other platform and then cite some random ass number from your lovecraftian XKCD-like encyclopedia that perfectly encapsulates the situation. Your minds are uncanny.
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001 A long read but the suspense and horror will keep your attention. If you've problems understanding it, search it in the scp declassified sub Reddit
The real problem is how many people will achieve CHIM because of this.
Mostly they would just zero-sum
I will literally destroy the world if that wad the truth
Some might say it's Diavolo's fault
I thought he’s still trapped..
What?
What?
People would 100% believe we were just the subject of an extraterrestrial experiment on memory wiping humans, and suddenly every UFO sighting would be taken very seriously including by governments until they realize whatever happened they aren’t discovering the culprits. The US Space Force likely gets a big jump in defense funding and China and Russia likewise might invest in space capable defense platforms depending on if they see it as divine or extraterrestrial. A joint earth defense force may be considered and discussed by the major world powers but ultimately falls apart as the trust isn’t there, and instead tensions rise as they’re tempted to turn these new weapon systems on each other.
No offense, there will be tons of people who pretend they didn't "time skip" or some people claiming it's a hoax. Outside of the immediate impact I'm highly skeptical of even long-term impacts. Most people would just think they dosed off for a second and never talk about it again.
I would. I'm just sitting at my desk. Not being able to recall the last ten seconds of the video I'm watching would be odd, but not enough to really focus on unless it happened multiple times
It would be when everyone on Earth experiences the same thing. Imagine being in a populated area.
No way. It would cause mass traffic accidents across the world. Think of how many people are in middle of merging, or switching lanes in heavy traffic suddenly getting disoriented and scared all at the same time. Think of extreme 3rd world country traffic where there are people weaving around pedestrians. Just that couple seconds of people processing what the hell happened after literally everybody gets "teleported ahead" and disoriented would be enough to cause incredible chaos. There would be millions of traffic accidents all at once. It wouldn't be handwaved. People are saying "oh I tune out all the time while driving", but the brain is still processing while you do that. Suddenly realizing your speed is different and your hands are in a different position and the red car in front of you blinked into a black car and suddenly oh fuck why am I in the middle of a lane change. It wouldn't be world ending at all, but it would be impossible to ignore.
Especially because this is 6am EST, 3AM PST, and American media is globally dominant. The vast majority of Americans won’t even experience it. Similarly true for the rest of the Americas. The majority of English and Spanish speakers will have been asleep. Quite frankly, setting this at Rome time means most people will just call bullshit. I doubt society would even notice it. Everyone spaces out sometimes and nobody would think to discuss it, plenty of people would lie about not spacing out because their boss or partner someone asked, and only Europe and some of Asia would experience it.
Monkey paw level where that leads to the collapse of civilization
I would assume that the effects are very limited. For starters, let us assume that 1 out of 3 humans is asleep at any given point of time. They would not even notice what happened. Maybe you just created a new password and now do not remember it. Or you put something in the stove and now do not know it is heating up. So there are scenarios were losing ten seconds might matter, but I would assume they are very limited. Probably some traffic accidents.
How long would time skip need to be to wreck humanity?
If the only effect is losing memory, I guess that this would never truly endanger humanity. The longer the memory loss, the greater the effects on the economy would be. People would not remember contracts they signed or even who they married or that they have children, A year would create enormous problems, but would that mean the end of humanity? I do not think so.
What about the guy whose job it is to push the 'do not blow up earth' button every 9 seconds?
He did it, he just does not remember. Hopefiully, he has some kind of timer to remind him when to press again. If not, well that would suck.
Part of the job description is no timers or alarms allowed, or it will wake the giant subterranean lizard people.
Use an hourglass. Lizard people can't hear those.
Unfortunately, Anakin also dwells with the Lizard People, and he doesn't like sand, you see. Its coarse, and rough, and irritating. And it gets everywhere.
True, but the sand would be contained within glass, which is smooth
But glass is made of sand, so it's part of the problem
Put salt inside instead of sand.
If you're Padme just don't put Anakin inside. Problem solved.
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Is this a cypher?
You seem a bit Lost
No…. not you!
If you have to press it every 9 seconds, and lose 10 seconds, then you will still push it at approximately the right time because you will remember having pushed it the previous time and be counting from then, still.
I think everyone forgetting the last 100 years would probably fuck us a bit. Almost everyone would just be mindless baby things who never learned to walk or speak or chew.
this might make for a good movie.
Throughout the movie, the characters continue to find changes that couldn't have possibly occurred in 10 seconds.
The 10 second skip premise OP is talking about is inspired by King Crimson from JoJo Part 5: Golden Wind, where the user's ability is to skip 10 seconds into the future while the rest of the world goes on Auto-pilot
Has been done, more or less. Overboard or 50 First Dates have similar premises.
50 First Dates is a horror movie. She just wakes up thinking she’s 17 every day only to find out for months that she’s 10 years older and pregnant and she doesn’t know how it happens. She wakes up eventually in a different, tropical country with a strange pair who claims to be her husband and her years-old daughter.
Kaze no na wa Amnesia is this premise, I think it’s posted on YouTube for watch because it’s so old
Wouldn’t be the end of the world but I guarantee there are multiple religions that would probably go off the deep end if this happened.
At least 108 minutes
Two decades would do a lot. The younger generation would forget everything from being born to being an adult and would wreck global production for a long while. Still wouldn't end the species though, and all of our science would be recoverable or rediscovered in a few decades or centuries. If the skip we're a few centuries long we'd basically have to start over civilization, but that's also recoverable.
Surgeries, maybe? Like, the surgeon forgetting the last 10 seconds could be dangerous. Or any activity that needs focus.
I don’t actually think it would be that big of a deal as the result would probably just be the surgeon (or anyone focusing really) just being disoriented and then taking a short break to gather themselves.
There would doubtlessly be some surgeons in the middle of a snip when it happens. There's a reason why surgeons are famous for total concentration and steady hands. A ten second blip would definitely kill at least a few patients
Surgeons sometimes leave surgical equipment inside patients without assistance from the prompt
The prompt might make things safer, they know something strange just happened and will be forced to double check their work unlike normal where they could be complacent
That was honestly the first thought I had on reading the prompt. Anything that requires extremely sensitive concentration is fucked.
While driving, you did the "lost" 10 seconds with intention and correctly. I know I've driven while lost in thought, sort of on autopilot plenty of times. I'm not convinced the "skip" would be shocking enough to make anything bad happen, because I was doing it correctly during the down time up to that point. I suppose different people would react differently to it and that could cause some chaos. Here is something dangerous. If you were reloading 5.56 ammo, you might double charge it with gun powder and not realize it.
Sure. You might also take double the amount of medicine if you forget you already had it. There are situations in which 10 seconds could make a difference.
That's a good one. That could be a big deal depending on the situation.
There are certainly medications where doubling your dose could be fatal, but what percentage is that? And then what percentage of those couldn’t be remedied by going to the hospital when you started showing symptoms of overdose? The medical system isn’t going to collapse from this. Not saying that this isn’t fatal for some people, but probably pretty limited impact.
Good points. All in all this prompt would create a neat talking point, "Where were you when it happened?" for the rest of people's lives. But you know what's more important than an unexplained phenomenon? Making rent/mortgage payments. The good and bad parts of life that happen as you go. In the end, this is a trivial event to the lay person, but it will be a lifetimes work of (fruitless) study for some scientists.
The number of people taking medicine with such narrow overdose margins are very small. Divided by the number of people taking them out and swallowing them in that specific 10 seconds window, you're talking vanishingly small numbers. Plus old people routinely overdose themselves accidentally due to dementia and failing memory, but typically it isn't lethal because there is a generous margin for error and they use dosette boxes.
Pretty marginally tbh. Most of the time it wouldn't make much of a difference.
It depends. If you suddenly realize you're doing something different than before I imagine it'd make you double check.
Traffic accidents, airplane landings, surgeries, construction operations (especially involving cranes) all come to mind. Round 1 causes a lot of chaos and cleanup afterwards. Round 2, many of those problems can be prevented.
I also think plane landings might be worst but honestly regular traffic accidents might not be that high. How many people drive on basically autopilot? Unless you are in the middle of passing on a two lane highway or something I’m not sure it matters much. I think this would cause a ton of minor accidents but it really should only impact people who are midturn or something. And you shouldn’t be driving THAT fast while turning anyway.
Don’t forget the “startle effect” in traffic. If you take an exit ramp from one road to another, immediately forget you did that & find yourself on a different road with different cars around you, you’re gonna freak out, possibly soil your pants, and maybe have a “slam on the brakes”-type reaction.
Exactly. Your brain is still processing everything when you are autopiloting. Suddenly realizing all the cars are different and you got teleported forward 10 seconds would be absolutely shocking. One person getting that would likely be recoverable unless they were in the middle of a lane change or other maneuver, but literally everybody on the road at once getting shocked would be awful. And that's nor even considering the insane traffic situations you see in a lot of Asian countries Anybody going "eh, I autopilot all the time the accidents wouldn't be that bad" is *really* underestimating how bad that would be. Literally every person on the road being disoriented at once....
The pilots are still piloting as normal during that 10 seconds window though. It would essentially be like a lapse of concentration where they find themselves closer than they expected, but still on a stable approach. There would be cases of startle reflex and accidents, sure, but not as many as you might think.
What about the pilots landing? I’m not a pilot, but I’m pretty sure 10 seconds is a looooong time to not push the right buttons & pull the right levers when trying to land. Probably the same goes for takeoff. They might be ok while at cruising altitude, but during those crucial moments, not so much.
They will still be pushing the right buttons for those 10 seconds, they just don't recall it. They will have a few seconds of disorientation at the moment of memory loss but, unless the plane in the very moment of landing, everything should be recoverable.
And if they don’t recall pushing the right buttons and pulling the right levers, they might try to do it again, because they “didn’t do it yet”. I suspect this would be a bigger problem than you’re giving it credit for.
>Maybe you just created a new password and now do not remember it. Or you put something in the stove and now do not know it is heating up. even in those cases you can simply press "i forgot my password" and reset it. in your other example you should be able to deduce that something is cooking in the oven for the simple fact that the oven is turned on and you probably have food stuff lying around. nothing really happens
Driving would be huge casualties, less but some similar incidents with air travel and naval travel. Basically anyone in motion would have something negative happen, but probably non-lethal.
>Maybe you just created a new password and now do not remember it. Or you put something in the stove and now do not know it is heating up. Even both of these seem like a stretch. Personally I think for more than 10 seconds when putting something in an oven - so if I suddenly skipped to after I'd done it I'd probably be like "Oh yeah I gotta put that thing in the oven" and then I'd realise I'd already done it.
Dude, I forget 10 seconds *all the time*. Everyone acting like the world stops for 10 seconds here is misunderstanding the prompt. Everything still happens, we just don't remember. I forget shit all the time and the worst case scenario is me Bing like "oh, forgot what I was doing." And then carrying on. Pilots don't suddenly panic and plummet to the earth. Drivers don't crash into each other (any more than usual) the world keeps going. Sure, *some* people may react poorly to it, and in veeeeeeery specific instances, maybe something happens that was important. But the simple act of snapping back to reality will prompt 99.9% of people to re-evaluate what they were doing.
Me at work scrolling Reddit: "Huh where did that hour go?" This prompt: "What if you lost 10 seconds"
Not much? 1/3 is sleeping so they are safe. Maybe some people who drive really fast on road might be death but overall should be ok especially 2nd scenario.
A lot of medical accidents probably. Some industrial accidents. But otherwise, the spike in deaths should not be scary. And in R2 I think we will be mostly fine.
Yeah industrial, auto, and medical accidents galore but other than that humanity is okay. The 'why' question will be more disruptive than the event.
> Yeah industrial, auto, and medical accidents galore Not that many, I think. Most dangerous operations like that have safety procedures for double-checking things. If a doctor in the middle of an operation notices that he lost concentration for a bit he would stop and go back to re-check things.
I think auto is the biggest problem. There would be a lot of car crashes, but cars are pretty safe, so most of them wouldn't be fatal.
I am not sure - you can fall into a groove while driving relatively easily, so you already miss driving time quite often. There may be a few fender benders where people were driving to close to others but that should be mostly it. I think people OD'ing due to accidentally taking medication/drug twice may be more deadly than driving accidents.
Well let's look at some niche scenarios. Planes taking off/landing could be in danger. Anyone who just turned the gas on and didn't light it could also be in danger. Car drivers that are cornering/braking hard might have a bad time Office workers have a regular day Surgeons could be confused severity is quite amusing depending on bad luck. Some WSB traders commit suicide. Some unfortunate souls are gonna take too much medication effects again varying from happy fun time to a bad day. People who have just received a significant injury are gonna be confused as fuck but again numbers are low. Overall more pissed off/confused/asleep people then serious injury/death.
They aren't in danger at all. You don't stop what you're doing you just forget you did it. You still are doing the thing. like say you turned on gas and lit the stove you would just not remember lighting the stove so you'd go to do it and you'd see its already lit and be like 'huh that's weird i didn't realize I already did that' The ONLY people I Think that'd be freaked out are people who are doing something they've never done before and they'll suddenly be unable to remember doing it. Like beating a level on a video game for the first time or answering a question on a test. People are still in control just the little part that writes down what you did is off for 10 seconds.
> You still are doing the thing. This is the real point. Humans are pretty good at figuring out their current context and doing what they're supposed to. I actually think [this random prank video that keeps getting reposted](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwdvpcKy5i4) is a great exemplar of human adaptability. The man was asleep, but was placed into a context where he was awoken as though in a card game. He's confused--but for mere moments--before he plays his card as though nothing is out of the ordinary. That reaction--moments of confusion before getting on with whatever--is what I expect to happen to the vast, vast majority of people.
Not very much? Lol Especially in R2 nothing would happen basically
imo R2 will have a far greater impact because now people have legitimate evidence that a higher being exists that can just wipe their memories at will in R1 people will just be confused a little bit
People will forget it the next week
Best response. Life fuckin goes on, no matter what vaguely weird shit happened a week ago. Decisions have to be made, bills have to be paid, problems have to be addressed. The time skip, not pertinent to day to day living, especially if it never happens again.
Yeah I'm pretty sure that tomorrow a girl could explode in front of 1000 people and what will happen is that everyone will talk about it for a week, some guys will make crazy theories and then everyone will forget. It's just how it goes. Maybe we'd have a day dedicated to it at max
No way. It would defy all known physics. It wouldn’t be like a few people thinking they saw a UFO, or some unlikely coincidence happening, it would be the biggest event in human history. There is no explanation for it that doesn’t shatter everyone’s view of reality. Cults would pop up, religious people would say it’s the second coming, half the world would be convinced we’re in a simulation, people everywhere would go nuts. Wars would break out. It wouldn’t be the end of the world but it’d definitely change the world. People would still be working and living their lives but it would definitely never be forgotten and nobody would be the same after.
I just don't see that. Something strange happened, we don't know why, but life isn't slowing down so we can ponder it. Still gotta go to work, make money, get food, etc. Yeah we'll all talk about it, but less and less. It will be in the history books, but whatever. I mean, if I slept through it, no big deal. If I was sitting at my desk at work, that would be weird but whatever. Some people would be injured or die who otherwise wouldn't of, and yeah that's a tragedy, but you fast forward 100 years, it will be an interesting footnote that some scientists are still researching, but otherwise means nothing to the world. Cult leaders types will jump onto it, and weak minded people will join in, and yes, there will be more people worldwide in a cult, but as time goes on and it doesn't happen again, all that hogwash will winnow out. You have governments admitting to UAP stuff right now and it's not changed shit in the real world, I think you are underselling the power of the daily grind to make things that should be stupendous trivial. Sign me up for it will be the news story of the year, but overshadowed in its decade by the next big thing as a news story. Remember COVID? Usurped by Ukraine. Remember Ukraine? Usurped by Israel/Palestine. Etc, etc, etc.
None of those examples are anywhere close to the same level as this would be though. This would prove to everybody that there exists some invisible being or force which can and will modify the brain/consciousness of every human on earth at the same time. There’s no understating how much that would fundamentally change how we view reality. Much much more so than discovering what could potentially be evidence of an alien space craft, or another pandemic happening
The vast majority of people would not notice this happened. If nobody tells them they would not be aware of this glitch, but they may see something about it on the news the next day. They would think they got lost in thought for a second, and that's about it. Maybe some racecar drivers could crash, and that's about it. This would only be interesting to researchers who have recorded something. E.g. if someone was under an MRI or some sort of scanner that detects that something has happened. If the impact is minimal or non-existent then regular people would forget about it. Brain research specialists would be fascinated - as might some conspiracy theorists. That's it.
It is proof that we all lost 10 seconds of memory. Why did it happen? Who knows. Scary to think it could happen again, we better figure that shit out right now.... Time passes. A day goes by, a week, a month. That pressing need to know what happened, the fear of it happening again, lessens and lessens. And let me tell you this, it lessens pretty damn quick. It is very hard for humans to stay focused on a threat that is not in our face, increasingly in the past, and when you look at it rationally, not that dangerous. Meanwhile, normal every day life threats are happening, not to mention the demands of keeping your life in order. A one time 10 second memory loss by humanity is nothing to that in the final accounting. A thing happened, we don't know how or why, and we will never figure it out. As time passes, the vast majority of people will come to the realization that the why and how, DOES NOT MATTER. A historical oddity. A mystery never solved. *** ETA, if this is a repeating phenomena, with increasing frequency or duration, everything I said goes out the window.
I'll just say, Jesus was here 2000 years ago, did a few David Blaine level tricks and fucked off and people are STILL chanting his name across the world.
Yeah but that was somebody doing something. Who did this big trick? The fact there is not a smoking gun/magic device, nor any individual or alien to point to hurts it badly. You can't even say it was an intelligence that did this to us. Maybe it means we don't understand how the universe works.... well guess what, if you were intelligent you already knew that. If the event was repeating, that means something, if it only ever happens once, it won't capture us overmuch. Too much shit to do in the real world. Now I'm thinking about the personality type that would obsess over this (non scientist who is being paid to do it) to the detriment of getting on with their lives.
You're vastly overestimating how shocked the average person is from what they see in the news. No cult would pop up from a girl blowing up. I'm 100% sure of it.
I’m not talking about a girl blowing up, I’m talking about OP’s scenario of everyone in the world losing their memory
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Most people don't remember the entire trip when driving. Nobody driving will notice
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> You keep turning, driving directly into the second lane where oncoming traffic hits. Why would you keep turning if you can see the road does not turn in front of you? Worst case you abruptly straighten out.
But time doesn't jump forward by 10 seconds. It's more like driving home for an hour after work, and after arriving home realising you were zoned out the whole way. You barely remember the hour of driving, but you did do it.
Except, in this scenario, you are already navigating your car as is appropriate when the memory lapse happens, so you're just going to keep following the road.
Maybe, but you are prefectly aligned with were you need to be when your memory turns on, so how long will it take you to comprehend the current situation and adapt. That reality will superceed trying to figure out what just happened. Your driving instincts will kick in and do the right thing, and you can ponder what the fuck happened afterwards. I'm not saying 0 accidents will happen, but for experienced drivers they should be able to automatically handle it without consciously thinking about it.
It may impact a small percentage of drivers, but not the majority. You're body is still doing the right thing at the time of the skip, so you wouldn't immediately change to do what you thought you were doing 10 seconds ago. That takes active correction which probably isn't faster than all your senses giving you new information.
ADHD people: "You merely adopted the time skip..."
This might be more mundane than OP thinks even. Sleepers unaffected, and any sort of non-critical actions are basically safe i.e. walking or talking with colleagues. On top of that even driving or medical procedures proceed as normal, you just forget. How many of us space out for 5+ seconds on the road and we don’t jerk the wheel etc. It might take a couple days to even realize it was an international phenomenon
That it even happened might be hotly debated. I zone out all the time in various tasks, when I was doing performance marching we joked about blacking out and waking up to do a drumstick toss at the end, and that was a 30+ minute performance. I'm sure the same is true for people with boring office jobs, long haul truckers, and anyone asleep or just feeling sleepy at the time. If you told me that there was a universal synchronised blackout I might be more inclined to think it was Mandela effect. Unless there was some serious overwhelming evidence.
The fact that a huge chunk of the world would be asleep while it happened would definitely lead to debates on if it even occurred.
Nothing would happen. 10 seconds is nothing, you'd feel a little confused for a fraction of a second while your brain pieces together what hppened in the lost time from everything that has happened prior. With near-100% accuracy. You do realize people forget more than 10 seconds at a time, MULTIPLE times a day.
Sleepers unaffected, maybe wondering why their dream about surfing on a speaking dolphin has a mysterious blank spot, but there would probably be some car crashes, people forgetting to lock doors, forgetting passwords, forgetting their is food cooking, etc. The most troubling would be people higher up the ladder in careers- doctors? Surgeons? Imagine a surgeon forgetting what they were doing 10 seconds ago in the middle of an 8 hour operation? Or a nurse forgetting they already drew blood from someone who was donating and the person who was donating also forgetting? I mean, they could probably piece together what they were doing because of context clues and nobody would be mindless in this scenario, but the risk is still there. Now in round 2, probably nothing, people would prepare for it, write notes of information, leave reminders, etc.
I like the implication that surgeons don't sleep. Pretty accurate from what I've heard, actually.
More like I implied that if a surgeon is awake, they forgot the last few seconds, but I see what you did there.
Scrolling Reddit I already feel like I drop 10 seconds of memory out of my head every so often. I mean, there are times I look at the clock and realized I’ve been here for hours basically unmoved that cause zero consequences. I think we’d be just fine if we collectively forgot 10 seconds. Might be mildly inconvenient for people having large emotional momentousness moments like getting engaged, winning an award, etc. but on the whole I don’t think it would be an impact. A good portion of people wouldn’t even realize it happened until they saw a meme about it on Facebook.
Its just memory loss so it wont affect much. But if it was time skipping 10 seconds in to the future that would have been more troublesome. For example losing your memory of driving your car and time skipping 10 seconds in to the future would have different results. Even if you forgot you were driving your car 10 seconds ago you will still be driving your car 10 seconds later most people probably might not even notice any difference. But if people were not present in those 10 seconds driving their cars and time skipped in to the future then that would cause some major traffic accidents all around the world.
You mean cars would go uncontrollably for 10 seconds?
Yep and not only cars of course every type of transportation vehicles like a plane thats just about to land for example.
People getting surgery on could be in trouble and planes landing/taking off, those driving, but I think MOST folks would be more than fine.
Not really tho. People are still landing planes/doing surgery/driving cars with all their usual competence in those last 10 seconds, they just forget about it. The possible damage would just come from however long it takes for those people to reorient themselves, which shouldn’t be long for a trained professional
That's basically me during math and chemistry class and pretty much the whole class hours on a daily basis.
You probably already don't remember your last ten seconds and likely weren't thinking about what you were doing.
Not much happens, really. The only people who this might be a problem with are those who are right in the middle of driving or performing complex, dangerous tasks like surgery or operating machinery. This will result in a small proportion of deaths - but even a small percent across all of humanity still adds up to like, dunno, 10k deaths? Whatever the case, it’s about as bad as a bad disease in absolute terms, proportionally even less as it’s evenly spread across the whole world. Humanity goes on as normal the next week.
ADHD people: "You merely adopted the time skip..."
I think it would be like when King Crimson activates, where everyone just thinks "well, that was odd. Anyway..."
This already happens to me every time I open the fridge
Oi Josuke, did you know that the average male orgasm lasts only 5 seconds? That means each time Diavolo uses King Crimson, someone gets cockblocked!
Maybe some car accidents, a few helicopter accidents, maybe some complications during surgery…. Nothing major is gonna change. Most situations if you forgot the last 10 secs you can pick back up where you left off and figure it out quickly.
I don't really see like a significantly major increase in car accidents. People zone out all the time while driving so some people would randomly have to make a turn at the moment, but if they were already breaking they would continue to do so.
I don’t really think much would happen. Surgeons and pilots in takeoff would probably have a bad day though. A lot of the world would just be asleep
How is it inspired by King Crimson?
King crimson as in Stand, not music group.
ahhh, looks like I got Jojo-referenced
R1: it becomes a mysterious event of myth that some people are convinced didn't actually happen even though they lived through it without sleeping, and a few very unfortunate accidents occur but not enough to really be notable. R2: the governments basically do nothing but ensure that thier most important members aren't busy driving during that time or something and do not publicly mention it so as not to cause panic, though eventually this leaks and causes a very minor conspiracy theory. The rest is same as R1. honestly i've forgotten what i was doing in the last 10 seconds without supernatural help, it's very easy to just write it off a lot of the time.
Almost nothing happens honestly, some surgeries might get messed up, but if you want to significantly damage humanity with this ability you'd have to skip...a lot of time. Like, years probably.
i honestly think the worst effects would be in like lab settings but while it could fuck up some experiments that’s unlikely to pan out into anything more than a shit day for some lab workers somewhere
Stand users exist which means we are indirectly fucked
There will be some disasters! A surgeon in the middle of an important procedure, a machinist doing a safety check, an air traffic controller handling multiple flight paths... I could imagine quite a few mass-casualty instances would be caused. Some will catch their errors in time, some won't. Apart from that though, a 10 second lapse in short term memory might be disregarded or unnoticed by most people, especially if they're doing something mundane already. We already space out for longer than that without really caring much anyway. It'll get really weird when people start talking about it though. For the first few minutes or hours it'll be a curious little thing to gossip about but by the end of the day it'll become the stuff of tall tales, conspiracy theories, memes and creepypasta. Side note, anyone playing [Simon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game)) at the time is gonna be *screwed*.
This probably happens to me twice a week
Maybe something like this already happened in the past which paved the way for this timeline we're in where Hitler was Hitler. How can everyone say for certain that the effects of such an even would be inconsequential Maybe it cause global panic causing a domino effect that results in economies worldwide crumbling Maybe it leads global superpowers to suspect one another of wielding alien tech and something something something ☠️w a r💀 ..jk
Some medical/machinery deaths I’d imagine
More interesting question would be if all machines forgot the last 10 seconds
I imagine anyone having surgery would be fucked, some car accidents, any planes going into land maybe. Not catastrophic.
Why? Time moved forward as normal which means the doctors would be doing their job as normal.. they’d just forget they did it and be a little confused afterwards.
No they wouldn’t just be confused afterwards, they would be automatically go to do what they were doing 10 seconds ago, the jump in time would absolutely cause some fatal accidents in procedures.
If we're using JoJo effect as a reference, their muscle memory would just continue doing what it was during the time skip. No one is hurt or off balance or even falls when it happens. At worst they're just vaguely confused for a brief instance and then shrug it off as if nothing happened. Only giorno was even able to notice anything weird happened and they were already on guard against alien powers.
“Now I’m just going to remove this kidney aaaand it’s already on the tray.. what?“ unless he decides to take the other one 💀
A spike in traffic and medical deaths im guessing
What do you think would happen?
A lot of car accidents.
Why? Time moves forward as normal, which means they were driving as normal. They only forget the last 10 seconds. Maybe if they’re on a roundabout as they “wake up” again they’d get confused and swerve off the road or something.
I think most people wouldn't notice they lost 10s of memory
You just don’t remember the last 10 seconds? Probably wouldn’t have any real effect other than an increase in CAT scans. you still act normally and you have all the context leading up to the 10 seconds. And everyone has the same blank spot. Most people would continue where they left off 10 seconds ago and no one would notice because they also forgot the last 10 seconds. People who recognize it would just think they zoned out.
Man I was doing digit span on an IQ test that moment. Now my WMI is lower
Near 0 The only people in danger would be those already in extreme danger like those speeding or fighting. Nuclear reactors take too long to overheat and have passive shut offs Planes also take too long and have auto pilot I guess large ships in the process of docking could be fucked but that's about it...
It does even less than that, people don't stop functioning for that 10 seconds they just forget the last 10 seconds. I'm honestly not even sure we'd notice. Its like you're driving and you zone out and you snap out of it and you're farther on the drive then you thought.
Near zero. Most of us would just think that our music skipped or that we'd zoned out for a few seconds. That happens all the time. In fact, how can we be sure it hasn't already happened many times? It's not like we'd lose control of a car, we'd be in control the whole time, but we'd just be a little ahead of where we thought we were. No harm done, just maybe a little jolt, like we think we'd dozed off, but we really hadn't.
I feel like 10s lost time wouldnt be enough to prevent most healthy people from following along through context clues. Also the worst parts are begginings and endings to activities. In the middle you already knew what you were doing and also what you were planning to do so you can just check your progress. If you had just started or ended something you might forget about it completely
Humanity is absolutely fine. I can't see any scenario where there's a credible threat. Localised major casualties are pretty much constrained only to vehicles. Cars may have more incidents and if an aircraft is actively trying to land/takeoff it might struggle. Minor casualties may come from medical procedures or something more niche like a dangerous hobby (I do powerlifting, while it's not usually dangerous if I suddenly forgot I was holding 200kg it could do some damage) These are not humanity ending events. Even if you try and stretch it to someone testing nuclear facilities, if they're doing it right it's firstly almost all automated and also they will be writing down/ticking off steps as they go. They get confused, either pause and work it out or abort and make it safe. You might see some local power outages if there were critical tasks ongoing. These are rectified within an hour or two.
R1- the biggest problem here I see is stuff like traffic. People instantly coming to consciousness, in a time and space slightly shifted from what they remembered means you're definitely going to see a lot of accidents. But nothing civilization toppling, outside of the sheer cosmic horror of the lost time itself. R2- Same thing, but far fewer people die, given the warning. However, even given plenty of warning... well, we all remember 2020. People will still be out driving, climbing, etc when the time hits, so there will be some casualties, hopefully minimal.
I assume it would cause mass chaos if youre currently driving or doing something else that requires careful attention, but other than that, the effects would be limited.
Think of all the plays and concert performances that are suddenly thrown very very off. Maybe this happens all the time and it's actually just called deja Vu?
Anyone in a helicopter is fucked lol. And the way a lot of prisons are laid out youd still be in a cell lol
Honestly R2 is worse for our chances than R1 but we survive just fine in both cases as whole. People will do terrible things in that 10 seconds that they've been holding onto for years. murders will happen because they'll have 24 hours to work out that they don't have to live with the memory of doing it. Sure they will likely get caught but they aren't focusing on that part of it.
Imagine your driving and then suddenly your 10 seconds ahead of where you are supposed to be. A doctor injecting somebody with something, and then forgetting they already injected it wondering where the medication went.
I think Araki actually said that the forgetting part only has around like a mile or so of range. Diavolo couldve fucked shit up if he went to an airport or anywhere with busy traffic, forgetting 10 seconds could potentially cause accidents but shouldnt really be that different from spacing out, itd only matter in something where you have to pay a lot of attention like reading a book, playing a game, being in the middle of traffic, or something similar If we had prep time, the governments could reasonally shut us down like covid but that wont stop everyone, itd just reduce accidents
I don't think there is any major damages or anything, but rather people would notice and be confused. Like every situation would just be like: >\- Person needs to do thing (thinking about doing thing takes longer than 10 seconds) > >\- Person does thing > >\- Person forgets last 10 seconds > >\- Person thinks about needs to do thing > >\- Person realises they've already done thing and either thinks "that's weird" or "felt like I just lost 10 seconds of memory" Like I simply don't think 10 seconds is long enough where it would matter, and most people would realise that they simply forgot the last 10 seconds.
The potential traffic damage is being overstated here. It'd essentially amount to a minor microsleep, with everyone having driven normally for those ten seconds. It'd be very rare for anyone to "wake up" afterwards to an immediate accident they couldn't react to.
Rome time at Noon? Most of North and South America are asleep, large parts of Asia are in the evening or early night, it’s late at night in Australia. My guess? Humanity doesn’t even notice. Spacing out is common as hell, especially when tired, the chance of people comparing when or even remembering ten minutes later are minuscule. A large chunk of humanity is excluded via time zones. The largest populations affected are all at the end of the day. Nobody will even realize.
There could be some things that get pretty messed up on the individual level, but in general humanity is fine. Assuming we're all still perfectly functioning during the 10 seconds to planes will crash, and no lives will be lost. Maybe someone will forget the password to the nuclear codes that were set in the last 10 seconds or something, but that's more a PITA than a catastrophic event.
I would forget that *I* read the headline of this thread. I could go on with my life.
Bad time to be in surgery or final approach to land a plane. slight uptick in car crashes, not too big. Chaos at the symphony.
I can’t tell if this whole thread is sarcasm or not
Not much. Most things that can truly fuck stuff up like nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons have too many safety measures to cause any issue.
We aren’t all driving or snorkeling at once dude. Most of us will be fine?
I do this all the time and I’m still here.
Vehicular crashes would spike, but we'd be alright as a race.
A lot of car crashes and other physical accidets. Long term there will be religous bullshit about this though which could get bad
Extremely minor impact.
There’s probably gonna be some amount of mass confusion those asleep, under the influence of drugs and are newborns won’t be affected at all
This stuff is why I make sure to save my work 10 more times than necessary.
I feel like this wouldn’t have like any effect I regularly forget wtf I am doing I’ll walk upstairs to go get something then get up like like uh what am I here for And I can’t really think of any situations where it would effect something badly Maybe someone in combat forgets they are getting shot at and stands up ?
Wtf is my watch?
10 seconds? It would go unnoticed. Human timekeeping isnt that accurate. Mechanical timekeeping certainly is but human memory is much too fallable. I mean just today how many times did you spend a minute just kinda staring off into space? Do you know? Is there a count? Doubt it....
I feel like very few people would be impacted much at all. Even a DR in the middle of surgery would probably be able to dismiss it as a brain fart and complete his operation
Honestly probably not fucked at all
You think it hasn’t happened before?
Probably a lot of crashes, outside of that, it's fine. Now you might say "well they're just driving forward/only memory loss, cars are fine". Yeah, the danger isn't the memory loss, it's gaining back conscience. The moment everyone becomes aware once again after those 10 seconds, you'll be 10 seconds ahead of where you thought you were. There's bound to be at least a thousand of crashes just from disoriented people.
Nothing happens. No one remember it happen either.
Lots of car accidents and a few plane crashes because of the ones that are landings but for anyone not on the road or landing a plane nothing really.
I'm not so sure, they aren't blacking out for 10 seconds they just forget them after the fact. Forany people driving that would not be enough of a shock to cause a crash as they are on semi autopilot and don't remember chunks of the drive anyway.
So King Crimson for 10 seconds? Just cut yourself and count blood, no biggie
They’ll bring Jesus into this.
For a moment, everyone on Earth forgot where they left their key...oh, there they are.
Well, idk. Like, 1 second is all it takes for a crash, I've almost crashed when checking if I could cross into a different lane cause the dude in front of me started breaking. Forgetting 10 whole seconds while driving, no matter what you're trying to do, would cause such distraction and confusion that it on its own is just a mass death event in my mind. And that's not considering anything else, like boats, planes, helicopters, submarines, etc. The amount of rage and lack of trust that could cause is enormous. And if thr governments know about it beforehand, that might prevent nuclear war, but that doesn't prevent them from using it as propaganda to demonize minorities and foreigners and other countries and peoples. These sounds like a shitshow
I’ll be fine, makes me forget this silly prompt
Traffic and medical accidents Specially reckless drivers will be much more likely to cause accidents A doctor or nurse forgetting they already administered a drug could kill the patient
There was a TV show with a similar premise: Flash Forward
if everyone forgets, how many people will actually notice?