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Dreams That Alter Reality

Description

A man's dreams retroactively change reality, and a psychiatrist attempts to harness this power to improve the world, but each improvement creates unintended consequences worse than the problem it solved.

Real-World Relevance

THE canonical unintended-consequences-of-well-meaning-intervention story. Models how attempts to optimize complex systems (economies, ecologies, societies) through single powerful levers produce cascading failures.

Classification

Domains: Medicine and Human EnhancementGovernance and Political SystemsEthics and Philosophy of Technology

Scenario Types: Warning / Self-preventing prophecyCautionary tale

Outcomes: Cautionary

Tags: reality-altering-dreamsunintended-consequencesoptimization-failure

Stories (6)

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