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.
Instead of leap days time just runs backwards to keep the calendar in sync.
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Remove every soul that would ever become a parasite 1%, or a Wiccan. Both rotten to the core.
What’s wrong with Wiccans? I know a few, they’re fine people.
A lot of them are assholes in one way or another, at about the same distribution of every other social group
I’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.
That whatever species ends up dominating the earth with tools and technology branches out from bonobos instead.
Our solar system would have a greatly reduced speed of light so as to avoid being attacked by other sentient life.
Explain to me please but also wouldn’t that have to mean there was a black hole really nearby
It’s a reference to a book. But essentially yes you would manipulate the curvature of the universe to put something similar to a black hole around the solar system so that nothing could escape. A Black Domain, or a Light Tomb.
No black domain for me thanks. Even with A-A around
Thank you for validating my scifi reference. I feel seen.
I see you and so do the Zophons.
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No religion.
George Lucas does‘t mess with his movies
being an asshole should be painful
Every time you’re unreasonably rude to someone, you feel a pinprick inside your nostril. If you’re a right jerk it’s more of a stab. When you assault someone the pin is a kitchen knife. Murder and rape make you feel a lance of fire in your sinuses. It could work, nothing else has
As a dedicated asshole, I agree
No I’m not a masochist, just that most assholes are more asshole than I am and they fucking deserve it.
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
So kind of enforcing karma as like a universal truth? I like it!
New rule is that everyone has to be nice to me.
Real
Planck’s constant isn’t.
Isn’t Planck’s? Whose constant is it then?
For the next 3.7E-13 zeptoseconds it’s yours. My gift to you.
Oi, that was my turn
Greed is removed from the list of possible emotions/personality traits.
Great. Now everyone’s horny.
That was gonna be my change
Everyone horny all the time
I’m already in that universe; it’s pretty good
Nobody is horny and humanity dies hornyness = greed for sex.
You say that like it wasn’t intended.
Welcome to my world.
So bonobos become the dominant species?
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.
A disease that kills everyone a bad person knows, even if they don’t do anything wrong, is a Bible level of justice.
How is “being bad” decided?
If it’s decided internally (“bad” is what you believe is bad), then all the objectivists get a free pass for being assholes. Hitler is a supermodel, etc.
If it’s decided externally (there’s an universal definition of “bad”), how far into the future does it propagate? If I rescue from drowning someone who will genocide all the Dutch in the future, when do I go bald?
That said, beauty pageants would be much funnier, with trolley problems instead of talent competitions.
This is why this one wouldn’t work in any meaningful way. Good and bad is a human creation subject to the individuals perception.
I think they are saying that in their revised universe there would be an absolute humanity spanning moral code.
And the things that that moral code decide are bad are bad always for everyone regardless.
I think they are saying that in their revised universe there would be an absolute humanity spanning moral code.
I think what we have is something much better. A flexible morality which is taught from generation to generation and adapted as needed. An absolut moral code wouldn’t work.
Funny enough, that’s exactly the way it actually is. And I believe this system still works; not that we could change it anyway.
And the things that that moral code decide are bad are bad always for everyone regardless.
Still, this is how it is. It discourages immoral actions even when nobody sees them happening, because the person doing them still knows and feels bad/shame/worries.
Mother Teresa looks like a supermodel
Mother Theresa was a monster who got off on the suffering of others.
Why do you think she looked like that?
Disney rules.
