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?

    • bizarroland@fedia.ioOP
      8·
      2 months ago

      I mean I’ve heard that arsenic-based life forms are plausible but I think you have to live in a methane Rich environment to survive so you would basically like collapse into a puddle of toxic goo

      • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 months ago

        I was hoping for something more mechanical or digital. If I’m going through all the hassle of getting a new body then I don’t want to bother with the habits of the old one ( eating, sleeping, etc).

            • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 months ago

              But bender drinks, and sleeps…I think he eats? Maybe? I know he doesn’t have taste buds though. They did a whole episode on him cooking with lsd.

              • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
                6·
                2 months ago

                Drinking is for fuel and they’ve demonstrated that the robots can have alternate fuel sources. A Bender body is perfect because I can claim a major victory against entropy while not going crazy by sacrificing my human stimulus (like Metalo from Superman). I want to be unfettered from Earthly needs while still being able to party.

  • klemptor@startrek.website
    35·
    2 months ago

    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!
    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    Let’s see here, I think I would implement…

    • better cable management for more efficient routing
    • A settings menu to enable things like “abundant food” mode, set body hair preferences, etc.
    • 3 sets of teeth, make baby teeth last a little longer like my first one fell out when I was about 5 or 6, I’d start replacing them at like age 8, then the middle set would last until about 35 and then you get your last set.
    • Sperm valve with 2FA.
    • There’s probably some upgrades we can make to the eyes.
    • Maybe some kind of heat pump system for urine, so if its very hot you can take a 150 degree piss and save some sweat, or if its very cold you can piss ice water to retain more heat.
    • build caliper functionality into my hands, so I can know the size of something just by holding it.
    • 0ops@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 months ago

      3 sets? I’ll take a shark-like conveyor belt mouth of infinite teeth thank you

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I would settle for exchanging baby teeth a part of puberty. Just that extra few years of wear transferred from the second set to the first set I think would make a load of difference.

    • bizarroland@fedia.ioOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      I heard they recently developed a meta material that can passively convert approximately 1500 mm wavelengths down to 500 mm wavelengths.

      Incorporated into sunglasses they purport themselves as being non-powered night vision goggles.

      If they could incorporate that into contacts that would be fucking stellar.

  • Tywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    183·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    13·
    2 months ago

    I’d keep my natural self.

    I’ve been a software developer before. I know exactly how well my self-designed body would work.

  • 7EP6vuI@feddit.org
    142·
    2 months ago

    Never change a running system. Even small changes may have unexpected consequences, if the machine is as complex as our bodies…

    • edric@lemm.ee
      6·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • 7EP6vuI@feddit.orgEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        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?

      • 7EP6vuI@feddit.orgEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        you can not.

        just think about it: 80 to 100 years uptime, no reboot, no fall back system, not even a cold spare. and you want to change something while its running? madness! maybe if you are very lucky you may be able to replace some of the internal components… but not to upgrade, only if your on the risk to loose the whole system…

  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    2 months ago

    I doubt I’d do anything major. Tweak my hair and eye color a bit. Predispose myself to a higher metabolism. Crab claw. Maybe add an inch, though I’m already pretty tall. Just simple confidence things, ya know?

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    10·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
    122·
    2 months ago

    I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to — I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more, I could experience so much more, but I’m trapped in this absurd body.