Ripping off a post I just saw in the Isaac Arthur subreddit. Imagining we work out the technical ability. Examples they suggested were:

  • No periods
  • No balding
  • No nausea
  • No body odor
  • Resistance to obesity and muscle wasting
  • Paranomaly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    412·
    1 year ago

    Let’s put a cap on how much excess energy the body can store as fat. Sure, some amount is fine and has a number of uses, but just let me poop some excess calories out. I’d only need more if I were to hibernate.

    Thinking on it, I want to hibernate too, please.

    While we’re at it from animals, how about upping some of our regeneration? Teeth don’t regrow? Naw, constant regen please. I get too big of a cut and I get a scar? Let’s let everything regrow from being lost if you can survive without it. Also why doesn’t the brain heal? Most important part of the body and each crack’s there for life. Let me get my serotonin back already, slacker.

    Also what’s with this getting assigned a gender thing? You don’t even get to know what it means before you have one! And then we build society as if this coin flip was the seed to the tree of life. Let people choose and switch naturally, please and thank you.

  • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    RFC, pull request to add git.

    Reasoning: Having a built-in versioning system would allow humans to rollback roll back undesirable changes and advancements could be made more easily

    please comment or downvote if this is a bad idea

  • Pyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    No more accidentally biting my tongue or the inside of my cheek while eating. Sometimes I’m just excited for some good food and it just gets completely ruined :(

      • DrRatso@lemmy.ml
        91·
        1 year ago

        You can not have a cure for cancer, but a cancer. I promise I am not trying to be pedantic here. Cancers are so different from one another, that a single cure for breast cancer might not even work on all breast cancer.

          • Bakachu@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            This is so fucked up but yeah I can see them settling for research on a drug or treatment that just keeps you from reaching Stage 4 to where you become a lifelong consumer of said medical company.

  • Wahots@pawb.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    Appendix not coming from the factory is a big one. A slightly better immune system that can get through the blood/brain barrier and kill rabies/amoebas, and other brain infections like TB (without shredding brain tissue) too. If a virus like rabies gets past that barrier, you are 1 0 0 % B O N E D as your immune system is largely locked out.

    Wider uterus/vagina too. Human babies have massive heads that don’t fit through too well. It’s like an orange on a toothpick. Making a smaller baby could be a possibility, but survivability would potentially go down.

    For very tall people: a larger and stronger heart organ. A second one acting like a smaller turbo would also help. Heh. Failover cluster hearts. You’d probably have to have stronger veins and tissues as a result though.

  • V0uges@jlai.lu
    12·
    1 year ago

    The ability not to pee myself every time I sneeze, run or jump after giving birth vaginally would be pretty nice. Even without doing any physical therapy.

  • attofreak@leminal.space
    11·
    1 year ago

    I don’t care about balding (and I have been since 20s). Just a healthy body reset every decade or two/whenever necessary. Get the metabolic rate up, clean up all the junk from the environment that has polluted the DNA and reduced the telomere lengths (whatever the correlation/causation there). Just a “take the body to the shop” type of repair possible. A chance to live for centuries.

    • Chriswild@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      I think our lack of vitamin C production is a feature and not a bug because we basically can’t eat too much of it. But animals that produce it like rats can get cancer from eating too much.

      I’d much rather produce B12 than C