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You found the future, Biology is a completed engineering corpus. What do you modify about yourself? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
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Let's say there are consequences where all genetic alterations are difficult to sandbox and largely irreversible during an extended, but still finite lifetime of around half a millennia.

Rules:

  • changes will be passed down to your offspring
  • any change may make you sterile, but large changes will always make you sterile
  • alterations are most effective when done under the age of 20 and do not fully manifest for decades
  • if you screw up your code it might be deadly
  • biology as an engineering corpus is several orders of magnitude more complex than computer science was in the 21st century – screwing up is very easy
  • any adaptation present in evolutionary life is technically possible to someone dumb enough to try and brilliant enough to pull it off

These are the rules, what do you change?

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[-] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Inb4 all the furries show up wanting to become their fursonas.

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