Our solar system would have a greatly reduced speed of light so as to avoid being attacked by other sentient life.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
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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
No life can exist.
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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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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The sky is teal, rather than blue.
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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Set the electron g factor to exactly 2
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.
I'm pretty sure that would result in all matter compacting down to a single point again...
I will rmov thy lttr
That whatever species ends up dominating the earth with tools and technology branches out from bonobos instead.