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?
Give myself the ability to recover from more severe injuries given a good space of time to uncripple myself.
Extend my lifespan. Maybe just another 50 years, I’m not too greedy. But with relative youth. I don’t want to lose my good looks to age any sooner than I have to.
Get rid of my genetic disorders.
No cancer.
Adjust my taste buds for health food.
If I go sterile, it’s a bonus, honestly.