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You found the future, Biology is a completed engineering corpus. What do you modify about yourself? (lemmy.world)

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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