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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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[โ€“] Duke_Nukem_1990 5 points 2 months ago

No life can exist.

[โ€“] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

What about going after the law of conservation of energy?๐Ÿ˜ˆ

What if energy can be created, destroyed and conserved now? :)

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[โ€“] TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 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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[โ€“] Katrisia@lemm.ee 4 points 2 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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[โ€“] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

The sky is teal, rather than blue.

[โ€“] stelelor@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 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.

[โ€“] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[โ€“] Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I will rmov thy lttr

[โ€“] magoosh@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

Set the electron g factor to exactly 2

[โ€“] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

NO FUCKING AGRICULTURE

It would solve a ton of our issues .

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[โ€“] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 3 points 2 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.

[โ€“] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 3 points 2 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.

[โ€“] zxqwas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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

[โ€“] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 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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