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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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[–] TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Any 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
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[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Karma is real.

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Making the speed of light ~~infinite~~ one hundred times larger and the speed of sound the current speed of light. ~~No more blue/redshifting!~~ Faster communication!

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

No life can exist.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You both have to solve a new (to you) calculus problem to make a baby.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

OP said the universe does a hard reset. Life would never evolve if that was a new rule

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I will rmov thy lttr

[–] magoosh@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

Set the electron g factor to exactly 2

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

NO FUCKING AGRICULTURE

It would solve a ton of our issues .

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[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No more Pauli exclusion principle. I'm not smart enough to describe what that world would look like... which is exactly why I would do it.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure that would result in all matter compacting down to a single point again...

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

The sky is teal, rather than blue.

[–] Katrisia@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No suffering, no dis-pleasurable state, no undesirable reality exists. Everything that is, is deemed good by all beings that can judge it (if any). This has, as a consequence, no moral dilemmas, no conflict of wills and interests, no tragedies, etc.

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[–] missingno@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

New rule is that everyone has to be nice to me.

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