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[FearfulJesuit]

That actually sounds quite terrifying, especially since there's an enormous amount of domestic chickens in existence.

increase the rate at which mars spins by 1%. why? I think it would be amusing.

Increase atmospheric pressure of Mars by 1%...using a combination of CFCs, methane, and CO₂.

[flabort]

That actually sounds quite terrifying, especially since there's an enormous amount of domestic chickens in existence.

increase the rate at which mars spins by 1%. why? I think it would be amusing.

Increase atmospheric pressure of Mars by 1%...using a combination of CFCs, methane, and CO₂.

Sounds like a great place to grow cacti. Hmmm...

First increase the chance someone will launch a container of any size full of plants (in a rocket) to mars whether or not the rocket crashes or is recoverable by 1%
Followed by Increase the amount of plant life on mars by 1% once you hear about the above event on the news.

[Quartz_Mace]

Increase the amount of matter in the universe by 1 percent?

What would this do?

[nomoetoe]

Increase the amount of matter in the universe by 1 percent?

What would this do?

I think it might increase the amount of matter in the universe.
I'm not quite sure what it would do though, I'm going to assume it would be bad.

[Quartz_Mace]

Increase the amount of matter in the universe by 1 percent?

What would this do?

I think it might increase the amount of matter in the universe.
I'm not quite sure what it would do though, I'm going to assume it would be bad.

Depends. Is the matter spread evenly? Is the matter more likely to appear in places that have high matter concentrations, or low matter concentrations? Or is it just random?

That's what worries me. Maybe decreasing it by 1% would be better?

[Sirus]

Increase the amount of matter in the universe by 1 percent?

What would this do?

I think it might increase the amount of matter in the universe.
I'm not quite sure what it would do though, I'm going to assume it would be bad.

Depends. Is the matter spread evenly? Is the matter more likely to appear in places that have high matter concentrations, or low matter concentrations? Or is it just random?

That's what worries me. Maybe decreasing it by 1% would be better?

>Earth is part of the decreased matter

Welp.

[Quartz_Mace]

Should we add this to the count of 1% adjustments that end the world?

[Angle]

I don't know if people have already gone over this, because I'm too lazy to read 20 pages, but instead increasing your abilities effect by a whole bunch, you'd be better off decreasing it's cooldown. That gives you better fine tuning power.

[alexandertnt]

Day 1. Increase your power by 1% each day
Day 2. Increase the rate your power increases by 1%
Day 3. Increase the rate that your rate increases your power by 1% (how do I English that?)
etc.

[nomoetoe]

I don't know if people have already gone over this, because I'm too lazy to read 20 pages, but instead increasing your abilities effect by a whole bunch, you'd be better off decreasing it's cooldown. That gives you better fine tuning power.

True, although getting it to the point where the cooldown is really low would take awhile, but it would be worth it.

eventually decrease the cooldown to the point where it can be used every second, increase how much power it has till it has a 100% increasing power.
Getting the cooldown to the point were it could be used every second would probably take a very long time, but the reward would be amazing and terrifying.

[Angle]

It'd probably be best t take the effect up to 5 or 10 percent first.

Hell, what about "Increase the maximum effect that this power can have by 1%" and then "Decrease the minimum effect this power can have by 1%" after you've gotten your effect really high? Then you can basically set things to whatever you want.

[Angle]

Yeah, you be better of increasing your effect until it'd reached absurd amounts, then using it to change the maximum ad minimum effects of your ability, to give yourself a variance. then you could choose to increase or decrease something by about as much as you like. get the increase power up to over 100%, which'd take a while, then alter the max and min amounts, allowing you to increase or decrease anything by just about as much as you like. Then you can decrease the cooldown by 99.99% in one shot, do more or less whatever you like.

[LordBucket]

You can, however, decrease the lack of magic in the universe by 1%.

This, like a large portion of the proposals this thread has seen, fail requirements established in the OP. The second paragraph explicitly states that only quantities that are present can be adjusted. How do you measure the "lack" of a thing? Is magic even quantifiable? Your wish fails the existing quantity test and it fails the measurable quantity test. I think it also fails requirements that were discussed later in the thread. And even if you deliberately ignore the rules, you can't even tell me what the result of your wish would be.

 * If there are a million puppies in the universe and you increase the number of puppies in the universe by 1%, you now have 1.01 million puppies.

 * If there are a million puppies in the universe and you "decrease the lack of puppies" in the universe by 1%....how many puppies are there?

With something like magic, it's even worse because...even if your rules-breaking "reduce the lack of" phrasing were to somehow work, we can't even usefully discuss the result. How do you quantify it? Puppies are a thing that can be measured. "There are 5 puppies." Even non-discrete things can be measured. "There are five quarts of water." How do you measure magic? If I tell you that there's now "5 magic in the world" or "five quarts of magic" what does that even mean?

[Angle]

Well, let's see. If we count the lack of something as the difference between how much there is and how much there possibly could be, then we have a discrete number. of course, for most things, that number is stupid big. If you decreased the lack of puppies by 1%, 1% of the universe that was not puppies is ow puppies. This will likely bring about the end of life as we know it. Ooops...

[Eric Blank]

Define what magic is and how it is quantified. I would claim that the 1% per day superpower is an example of "magic;" it affects the world based on the wishes of its user(s), and it doesn't rely on interaction with any machine or tool, or energy to operate said device. If it exists, and it must be presumed to exist because it is being utilized in this scenario, then it becomes quantifiable in some manner and there are rules governing it. So right there, magic is already present in the universe, and its effects are quantifiable.