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?

  • Noodle07@lemmy.world
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    3 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.worldOP
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      3 months ago

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