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?

  • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Hmm. Can I revert to preadolescence like an immortal jellyfish?

    I don’t relish the idea of doing puberty again, but it’d probably be easier the second time.

      • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s more like biotic reversal so no time travel, just suddenly de-aging until just before biological puberty in a similar fashion as turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish. Ideally, memory and personality remain intact. Afterwards, aging begins again normally so it’s effective biological immortality.

        • bizarroland@fedia.ioOP
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          2 months ago

          So my question would be what would you get out of that?

          Your current mental state would alienate you from your age identical peers, and you would quickly out yourself as not belonging unless you were in a crash with a full group of similar people who were all simultaneously reverted to whatever age that would be 6 years old / 8 years old, whatever.

          It would be an interesting science experiment though to see if a human being who went through a rough transition into adulthood were suddenly reverted to childhood age and placed into a supportive and encouraging environment would the resulting person that they become even though their memories are intact be a better person in some measurable way?

          • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            It’s just a plausible mechanism for immortality since it exists in nature and it lets you be young again. It would be nice not to have all the random pains and aches that come with age and get a reset on physical youth when needed.

  • merari42@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Nightmares beyond human comprehension like something out of a video game character creator with lots of liberty but even weirder and then probably the default settings again.

  • nayminlwin@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Natural body, except healthier. No dry eyes, no stomach problems, no nerve problems in shoulders and legs.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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      2 months ago

      From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel.

      -MisterNeon

    • bizarroland@fedia.ioOP
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      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
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        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
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              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
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                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.

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        There are things like vitamin C and D your body has to get from somewhere else. Food, sunlight. Other animals don’t have this issue. Every creature is built different, i just wish we were a little lower maintenance - or failing that, a good answer why it has to be this way.

      • Eylrid@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Infodump incoming:

        Amino acids are the basic building blocks of life. DNA encodes which animo acids to put together in which order, and when. Ribosomes read bits of RNA that was copied from DNA and match up amino acids. The different animo acids correspond to different three nucleotides combinations (the As, Cs, Gs, and Ts of DNA). The ribosome attaches each animo acid in a chain.

        When the amino acid chain detaches from the ribosome it folds into a protein. Different amino acids in different orders affect how the protein folds and what it becomes. Proteins are the structures and machinery of our cells.

        There are 20 amino acids we need to make the proteins we rely on. Our bodies can make some of them and some of them we can’t. The ones our bodies can’t make we have to get from our diet. Those ones are called vital amines, or vitamins for short.

  • 7EP6vuI@feddit.org
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    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
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      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
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        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
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        2 months ago

        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…

        • bizarroland@fedia.ioOP
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          2 months ago

          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.

      • 7EP6vuI@feddit.orgEnglish
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        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…

  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • shish_mish@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I would dial the clock back 35 years and fix my teeth. A tail would be nice too and a sot pelt and maybe cat ears to go with the tail.