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submitted 11 months ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

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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[-] berryjam@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago
[-] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Vagina dentata (Latin for 'toothed vagina') is a folk tale tradition in which a woman's vagina is said to contain teeth, with the associated implication that sexual intercourse might result in injury, emasculation, or castration for the man involved.

Well that's my something new for today.

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

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

[-] MrNesser@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I'm going full culture and getting drug glands

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] MrNesser@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Side benefits of near immortality

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I'm getting gills so I can breathe under water.

[-] essell@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

We've all seen where that story arc leads. It gets dark

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I take lungs now, gills come next week

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Give myself the ability to recover from more severe injuries given a good space of time to uncripple myself.

Extend my lifespan. Maybe just another 50 years, I'm not too greedy. But with relative youth. I don't want to lose my good looks to age any sooner than I have to.

Get rid of my genetic disorders.

No cancer.

Adjust my taste buds for health food.

If I go sterile, it's a bonus, honestly.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Give my hair back and make me not allergic to anything.

[-] Kimdracula@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Reduce my penis size.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

I would cure the medical conditions I do have. That's about it.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Can I just pay some smart person to do it for me? I couldn't handle my 100 level CS courses 20 years ago, I'm definitely not making updates in production on my own body. Oh who am I kidding I couldn't afford to pay someone that smart.

Self-deprecation aside, I don't know of any non-human features I'd want, I'd just wanna OC my metabolism for a while.

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Conscious control and awareness over all bodily functions (when I want it if I don't then I can ignore it to the point where it is automatic again.)

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Allow backups.

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago
[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I'm growing two huge demon horns on my head and you can't stop me! Also a dragon tail probably some scales and gills. Now am I asking for too much with a bio luminescent uh... Penis?

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Your future selfies are all over the internet already. Live your dreams!

[-] x4740N@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago
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