When the multiverse finally got its act together and deployed a shared internet backbone, nobody expected the workforce implications. Most people assumed it would be like any other infrastructure rollout—bigger pipes, faster sync, maybe the occasional support ticket filed by an alternate version of yourself who still insists on using IE6.
But the real breakthrough came from something deceptively simple:
Pull requests across universes.
In the old days—meaning, last Tuesday—your work existed only in your own branch of reality. If you built a tool, wrote a paper, or pushed a late-night patch you hoped your manager wouldn’t notice until morning, that was all contained in your universe’s private repo.
Now?
One PR can be shared across infinite versions of you.
Still, the end result is spectacular:
This new system comes with a side-effect the researchers call multiverse dissymmetry — or just dissymmetry if you don’t want to sound like you’re giving a lecture on dark opera.
Dissymmetry is best defined as the imbalance created when your work propagates into universes where the corresponding “you” didn’t create that work.
This might sound dramatic, but here’s the twist:
Dissymmetry doesn’t change the number of you.
It doesn’t merge timelines, split them, retcon them, collapse them, or rearrange them alphabetically. It just rearranges what counts as “your” contribution in the eyes of infinite versions of yourself.
In other words:
It might feel weird, but nothing actually happens.
It’s like cosmic static. Philosophically chewy yet physically uneventful—kind of like trying to decide whether chunky bacon counts as a topping or a lifestyle.
So… Does Dissymmetry Matter?
The rest of us simply nod, accept that the multiverse is a messy shared workspace, and keep coding.
In the end, the Multiverse Workforce isn’t about metaphysics, ethics, or cataloging the behavior of your more eccentric selves.
It’s about this:
Your best ideas are now everyone’s starting point. And if dissymmetry is the price for that? Most versions of you would agree—it’s a fair trade.
The above is written by ChatGPT.
Infrastructure support for the multiverse internet allows one universe, for example, to make pull requests for the entire multiverse. By doing so, it allows you to share your work with an infinite number of other instances of yourself.
The side-effect is known as "multiverse dissymmetry," or dissymmetry for short. It is unknown if dissymmetry has any real impact on anything because it doesn't change the number of instances.
