We’ll just all assume that every person who gets this would make themselves early twenties with flawless skin, perfect organs, appendages and functionality, and no excess weight.
My question is, would you change yourself from your genetic baseline, and if so, how?
I’m trans so yes, I’ve been trying to do that for over a decade
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I’d get a new bum. Mine’s cracked.
You could become the unibummer.
MEND BUTTCRACK
I would absolutely:
- Get rid of anxiety (assuming there’s some genetic component to this - seems like all the women in my family have it)
- Change my eye color from hazel (mixed green & brown) to full green
- Add about 5 inches of height (I’m only 5’0")
- Add gills to my sides that deploy at will when under water, but otherwise are hidden
- Fix that annoying “it went down the wrong pipe” design flaw
- Add a nictitating membrane to help fix my dry eyes
- Wings? Maybe!
Definitely wings. First thing I thought of. Unfortunately that would require a massive redesign. Firstly, you’d need hollow bones, as well as a very low body fat percentage. Decent chance boobs and butt don’t grow hardly at all. Secondly, you’d need extremely strong chest muscles, which also still have to be light. And in order to provide enough energy for that, you’d need a larger and stronger heart with wider blood vessels. You’d also need to most likely quintuple your daily calorie intake. Possibly more depending on how often/when/ where you are flying. You would also want lungs with more surface area to absorb oxygen better, even at low altitudes. Especially at higher altitudes. That would likely mean a stronger diaphram. Stronger leg muscles for takeoff/landing. Better eyes for scoping out landing points and avoiding hazards. Most birds don’t fly at night, so you may consider something akin to a cats eyes, or go the bat route with echolocation. And you’re going to need a neutral remapping unless you just plan to replace your arms with the wings. Fortunately, outside of a higher energy cost, that last one might happen automatically, our brains are very plastic.
Congratulations, you’re a Harpy
What a thorough breakdown haha
Hmm… hollow bones might negate the need for gills.
I’d get rid of the daily headaches that started around 12, all the random aches and pains I’ve had since my early 20s, and give myself better dental/oral genes so I didn’t end up with a cavity every damned year.
But the thing is those are changes I’d make with CRISPR, too, if we knew enough about genes to actually implement them. I’d do it in a heartbeat.
The aesthetics aren’t that important, tho I wouldn’t mind having thicker hair. My mom got a nose job and told me I have her old nose, and even that I’d keep.
I’d keep my adhd/autism/personality/appearance stuff, just want the rogue pain/deterioration genes fixed.
No more garbage genetics please. EDS, pots, ADHD, probably autism (on the waiting list for testing), chronic stomach troubles, depression, anxiety, hormone imbalances, PCOS, chronic pain, inflammation, weak loose skin. All that can go fuck right off forever and die. Once my body actually worked, and looked like it wasn’t cursed from the get go, I think I might actually like it. Mostly. Might like an androgynous unit for daily living and a feminine one for sexy times. Both thoroughly muscular of course. Gotta get that muscle tone. If we went for non human stuff on top of that, wings. Huge fuck off dragon wings. None of that Superman flying shit, I wanna FEEL the flight. Hell, I’d probably actually be able to enjoy doing any physical activity if my fucking body wasn’t so, so breakable. Really I just wish I wasn’t in so much pain.
i was gonna say the same. just wanna be pain free😭
Same, EDS and MCAS here. It’s fairly well controlled nowadays but I’d love not having to adhere to huge life changes and needing to down 30 pills a day.
- add tail
- make cell cloning perfect
- better error correction
- add error messages other than “pain here figure it out”
- do away with blood types
- all colors are now customizable
better error correction
ECC is finally supported on the human platform lets go
okay but have you considered that a tail would make most chairs incredibly uncomfortable for you? also do you really want to be able to fall on your ass and break your tail?
I think we lost the tail for a reason.
small price to pay for tail
As I’m trans I would change my body to align it with my gender identity. But I would love to start at an earlier age, I want the whole experience.
Smaller penis.
Trans people have entered the chat 🙂
Ever since I saw Ghost in the Shell, I’ve wanted a full on robotic body. I’d have a few different ones to suit my mood, too. Assuming I could afford it, anyway. Which since it’s a dystopian nightmare, means I probably wouldn’t be able to get anything other than the shitty tank-like body and only if my insurance covered it. 😮💨
Ever since I knew the weakness of my flesh, it has disgusted me…
Unfortunately, your need for a new body is a pre-existing condition…
Never change a running system. Even small changes may have unexpected consequences, if the machine is as complex as our bodies…
Counterpoint: the cable management of the human body is fucked
For extra fun show this to your friends who are on very powerful psychogenic chemicals
90 millions years of evolution, or you: who knows better?
It looks funny on pictures, but i bet everything would go south if you would straighten it out or reorganize it.
If you don’t know the intend why it looks as it currently looks i would not touch it. even if you know why it looks like that and you can somehow compensate those effects, i would not do this on my own body for the first time…
I think one thing I would change is that the nostrils would use a slightly different air path then the swallowing mechanism, so that if you were to choke on food you could still breathe and get air into your lungs to expel the food.
Pretty sure those changes were made to get us better vocal cords, allowing us more range for speech. Here’s the first link I found that talks about it.
I think a minor change to my ACL to fix my knee and bring it back to normal healthy condition is a small enough change to not cause unexpected consequences, since it’s just restoring it to new condition.
hm. i did not think about serious illnesses when writing my comment. maybe we can specify this as a “not running system”, but i can understand that my first snarky comment could be perceived as rude when you have problems with your body. i fear i walked right in the privileged trap without realizing it?
Found the robot!
I’d keep my natural self.
I’ve been a software developer before. I know exactly how well my self-designed body would work.
Makes me think of the book series Magic 2.0
I would change everything in a heartbeat. You wouldn’t even be able to finish explaining what the button did before I pressed it like 7 times lol
I absolutely loath who I am, physically and mentally.
become dragon
derg
Some basic QOL-fixes such as asthma, eyesight and allergies. Fix the propensity for alzheimers and heart disease. After that, probably not much.