is there a science fiction novel where there are many parallel worlds but people in some of them use this knowledge to covertly A/B test major decisions (eg policy) across worlds
answer: a whole lot
i guess a bunch of these are more “personal choice” whereas i’m thinking more like meta-world scientists being able to run controlled experiments and write papers about the parallel worlds
whereas from the perspective of the controlled worlds it’s more as if they’re being run by the “lizard people”. where lizard people are the corresponding people from the world “advising” themselves what to do. like origin boris johnson’s avatar advising the forked boris johnson
forked worlds always eventually develop conspiracies about being run by a secret cabal of outsiders because it’s true — they’re run by the origin world. unlike TVA, forked worlds don’t get destroyed and just keep living in mayhem forever. the protagonist is in one of such worlds
they protagonist manages to sneak into the origin world and secretly kills their origin self, stealing their life to bring down the system from within. they organize resistance by orchestrating similar replacements. more and more people in the origin world are from forked worlds.
as the hijackers spend more time organizing in the origin world, they witness effectiveness of the approach. diseases are cured. catastrophes averted. all thanks to the info gathered from the parallel world experiments. after some infighting they stay and keep status quo.
naturally, they find out that the origin selves they killed were not the true origin world selves, but themselves from the forked worlds who already had the same exact realization and decided to uphold the existing order. or at least that’s what the origin world conspiracies say.
i’m probably describing some really wacky doctor who episode
this thread was inspired by reading about the filibuster
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