Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24104118-20140721164934/@comment-34296310-20180112155135

AlphaTheHD wrote: What if you become an omnipotent observer who doesn't interract? How would that violate anyone's free will in any way?

Also, ending with "And they lived happily ever after. The End." doesn't specify how they would do so, so it still leaves place for free will and since you are omnipotent, what keeps you from writing "and nothing they consider bad will ever happen to them" instead?

"They lived happily ever after." is context, once it's set the story flows as you imagine it would with it.

If you always limit your powers, this will not be a problem. The question is, just how much do you control passively?

If you do even for a bit, they are once again just characters. Doing what you'd assume they do, not doing what they would do freely.

As long as user of omnipotence has only a fragment of reality under their control, as long as they restrict themselves, I agree.

The only problem that rises, is that once a book starts, you have to write to move the story forward, which closes in a loop. Maybe the universe didn't exist as a book before, but now it is, and it will forever stay as such. Even if you burn the physical book, it will forever stay in your mind. Can omnipotent beings force themselves to forget? Can an author force himself to forget without ever remembering? If he can, I agree.

Once you CAN write down more, it will sit here for as long as you do not write, but once you start writing, you've taken control again. Universe flowing forward means it did because you commanded it to.

Good ideas though, how about more for discussion?