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The rule could be anything, as funny or as serious as you want. The universe will progress in a similar way that it has up until this point, unless your changed rule prevented it from doing so.

Some examples might be:

  • The invention of currency is not allowed.
  • Iron is slightly less stable.
  • The Ancient Greeks are able to cultivate Silphium, which does not go extinct now.
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I will hard reset the universe. The new rule is that any sapient lifeform has the power to reset the universe.

Welcome to the crabbiest of crab bucket universes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

All shows from our current universe that " ended too soon" instead go 1+ season too long, all long running series end with fans craving more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

That whatever species ends up dominating the earth with tools and technology branches out from bonobos instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Instead of leap days time just runs backwards to keep the calendar in sync.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fell asleep thinking of a question similar last night. No colonialism. Colonizing other lands outside of your own established borders would be forbidden.

How different the world would be.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The asteroid doesn't hit Earth in the late Cretaceous causing the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Every living creature is entitled to an equal portion of useful surface area of the earth proportional to their size and space requirements.

Not like that has anything to do with us possibly living out of a car next year if rent rises 30% again for the 3rd year running.

Fuck landlords hoarding property.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'd just leave the off button in place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No more questions about “What would you do if you were suddenly given power over everybody else?”

All this what-if-you-were-god stuff is subconsciously programming us to lean in when given the opportunity to control others.

As AI, surveillance, and extended bureaucracy undermine the concept of “freedom” as an inherently good thing, there will be more and more opportunities to control other people.

Indulging in this kind of question — what would you force all people to do if you could? — is normalizing the actual usage of those systems as they come into existence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

AI is a good thing as long as it's open-source non-commercial used by normal people (not govcorp), nothing wrong with proompting some images in the same way there's nothing wrong with pirating some plugins and throwing a fun track in FL together or even a remix or forking a GitHub project and changing it etc etc. Corpos and/or closed source can fuck off though. Information wants to be free.

It's certainly not comparable to "extended bureaucracy" (read: regulations that protect people from predatory big tech corpos and far-right leaders of that industry like Musk) and surveillance, which you just kinda threw in there to fill out the buzzwords. Like that one is obviously a bad thing but has no rhyme or reason to be with the rest.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The strong nuclear force doesn't exist.

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Is hard to pick one.

Altruism is the default instead of selfishness

Cancer doesn't exist

No harm could come to children. No one would have wicked thoughts towards them. They'd fully recover from any non-lethal injury. They could get sick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Without currency there had be no civilization

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