Colonization never occurs
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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.
Really cool one here: nothing capable of industrialization gets to exist.
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.
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
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You both have to solve a new (to you) calculus problem to make a baby.
OP said the universe does a hard reset. Life would never evolve if that was a new rule
planck length = 0
sounds a bit boring. how about -1, or pi, or i, or 42?
no gravity.
no friction, even better!
hows about there is still air but no air resistance
So no universe
ssshhhhh
Base 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."
Okay but now you only have 3 fingers on each hand
Found the nerd
let's get rid of the inverse square law. falloff is now linear.
Earth disappears in a puff of smoke.
Absolute mad lad
A necessary requirement for higher intelligence is proper, functioning empathy. If you lack this, you're just... Incapable of intelligent thought beyond that of a particularly stupid dog
Have to say this wouldn't affect me, not because I don't have any empathy but only cold, logical political solidarity, but also because I wouldn't really class myself as particularly intelligent. I'm just walking here
Humans do generally have proper functioning empathy
dogs, too. such a strange take
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Humans are neutrally buoyant in Earth's atmosphere
All physical constants are exact powers of ten; everything should be neat and organised.
Set the electron g factor to exactly 2
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.
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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