You are given an opportunity to hard reset our universe (particularly, the Earth). You are also allowed to change one rule about the new universe. What rule would you change?
You are given an opportunity to hard reset our universe (particularly, the Earth). You are also allowed to change one rule about the new universe. What rule would you change?
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.
Being bad or evil is literally bad for your health.
The better you act, the better your health - great teeth, good muscle, low fat, high fitness, good looks, and longevity (to a point), no addiction or mental health issues, selfless with no crazy ego. Ie Mother Teresa looks like a supermodel!
Health can fluctuate based on behavior but it always drops 3x faster than it improves. So if you fuck around on your wife, your teeth go bad, or you start balding etc. cheat on your taxes, or lie maliciously (excl. good lies like Santa) you start to get fat n ugly.
If you're a miserable prick who fires staff, scams people, bribes, hires children for sweatshops or harms people just to increase profit or boost share price you get cancer. But if you help those people then you may be cured provided you handle it really well and undo all the damage.
You attack someone, pedal harmful drugs or hoard unnecessary wealth, you go blind/deaf until you earn it back, more than once and it becomes permanent, each time after that you lose a limb for good.
You intentionally harm or kill someone via murder, drink driving, rape etc then it's game over via a slow, long, painful debilitating disease that's contagious to anyone you like or care about, ensuring you die alone.
To help identify the good/bad, your gut instincts are 10,000x more powerful and obvious to warn you of the dangers or benefits of each choice.
27Karma now has a maximum of one hour turnaround time.
21Base 36 counting becomes predominant.
0 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 A B
C D E F G H
I J K L M N
O P Q R S T
U V W X Y Z
Also the point at which hundred changes over to thousand gets pushed back by a power, so 6KL2 is Sixty Kay Hundred Elty Two, while 8,A59G is Eight Thousand Ayty Five Hundred Ninety G. Same with the changeover to Millions, Billions, Trillions, etc.
Probably wouldn't change that much practically, but it'd make "Ten" a square that's also the product of two prime squares, and it's divisible by a lot more ways than the current number base, and it makes "One Thousand" the square of "One Hundred" the same way "One Hundred" is the square of "Ten" and that "One Million" is the square of "One Thousand."
21No religion.
19Nice try God, I'm not getting you out of this one.
17Silphium was recently rediscovered so it's no longer considered extinct just highly endangered.
Aside from that, I would make it so that instead of having mental illness you would have magical powers.
Schizophrenic? Nope you just talk to the Dead. Adhd? Nope, you're an elemental wizard. Bipolar? Nope, you're either a healer or a necromancer. Depressed? Nope, you're just low on mana. (Major depression means that you're suffering from a curse) Psychotic? Nope, you're suffering a mana storm Narcissistic? Nope, you are an illusionist. Autistic? Nope, you're an enchanter.
16Humans are neutrally buoyant in Earth's atmosphere
15Life isn't possible
13No sentient beings this time plz
11Oxygen now stably bonds with three hydrogen atoms, not two. The new formula for water is H3O.
Good luck with any kind of life form that we would recognize as being alive evolving.
9Corporations are not people.
9Around the time the pyramid of Giza is built, actual Aliens build a slightly smaller pyramid in modern day Tunisia. No one cares and all conspiracies still center on the ancient egyptian ones.
8All physical constants are exact powers of ten; everything should be neat and organised.
8"Let's see what scientists say about time if I remove entropy from the equation."
Also: Big Elden Ring vibes. This is basically what Marika does; alters reality and takes death out of it because she got access to the source code of the universe.
7Honestly, i may be the most hardcore atheist, but it would be sweet if there was a God. You could know good and evil for sure, everyone gets what they deserve even if it's only in the afterlife, everything has a purpose...
I think it is objectively true that nature is chaos, we emerge from nature, and everything we believe in (currency, nations, laws, good and evil) are just social convention; all of that is the truth, and adapting to the truth helps me live a better life and make better decisions. But it's hard. It takes mental effort to accept that you're not the center of the universe and it's a disappointing thing to learn. I'm tired and i want someone to hand me meaning and purpose on a silver platter.
7Everyone has 50% more empathy, with a minimum equal to the previous median amount.
6Karma is real.
5The theme of the whole story of the universe changes with my mood. God is real, I'm him, so is magic and karma. Some days it's hentai.
5No life can exist.
5Any and all personal gain becomes mutual gain.
- If you don't intend to cheat anyone, the party you're interacting with gains in a similar "amount" as you
- If you achieve personal gain at the cost of someone else, their net gain will be even greater than yours
- In case there's no direct party you're interacting with while gaining (such as you running a red light when no one's around to be inconvenienced), society as a whole gains
5The sky is teal, rather than blue.
4I will rmov thy lttr
4Set the electron g factor to exactly 2
4All shows from our current universe that " ended too soon" instead go 1+ season too long, all long running series end with fans craving more.
3Every 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.
3That whatever species ends up dominating the earth with tools and technology branches out from bonobos instead.
3The asteroid doesn't hit Earth in the late Cretaceous causing the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.
3Humans don't evolve, we bring noting to the table of life and dont want to share.
3I 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.
3Instead of leap days time just runs backwards to keep the calendar in sync.
3Less power/increased liability for corporations.
2No 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.
2I'd just leave the off button in place.
2Karma is real.
2Animal life no longer seeks to multiply as much as possible all the time.
In our world, animals are always trying to have as many children as the food supply will allow; this means they're constantly rubbing up against their area's carrying capacity. I think animals could spare themselves a lot of suffering if they kept their numbers comfortably below carrying capacity, which of course they don't for a number of reasons.
I don't actually want that to translate to the human race because being satisfied with our circumstances would have us stagnate in the stone age, but you know, there's still something to the humility and chill of not wanting to try hard anymore.
2Is 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.
2Everything the same, but healing fantasies improve your mental health.
... Too meta?
2Space is now a clean vacuum.
2Coulomb's Law doesn't apply.
2Colonization never occurs
1My rule is: "greed causes incurable ear loss"
Clarification: I didn't say 'hearing'; I said 'ear'.
1I'd just leave the off button in place.
1Excess calories (energy) can now be purged all at once in a belch of fire. Animals of course evolve fireproof mouths, so no issues there.
1Mother Teresa would be out here looking like a zombie.
1George Lucas does‘t mess with his movies
1I would change the speed of light to be easily breakable.
1I'd create an actual god with morals of absolute good that rules over humans with an iron fist. Political debates? There's an objective answer and the god knows it. Do something wrong? Get warned. Do something very wrong? It's brainwash time.
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