What If You Could Hear Everyone's Thoughts? | The What-If Scale Ep. 2

You'd always buy the perfect gift, help lost strangers before they ask, and never lose at poker. But when a thousand thoughts crash in at once... what does mind reading really cost? The What-If Scale weighs every superpower: what you gain, and what it costs. Would you take this power? Which way does your scale tip? Tell me in the comments. Fact check: researchers at Queen's University (Tseng & Poppenk, Nature Communications, 2020) used brain imaging to estimate that our thoughts shift more than 6,000 times a day (a study estimate). Source: https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/discovery-thought-worms-opens-window-mind Animation drawn with code. Narration uses an AI voice. #whatif #animation #superpowers #mindreading