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?
Can I just pay some smart person to do it for me? I couldn’t handle my 100 level CS courses 20 years ago, I’m definitely not making updates in production on my own body. Oh who am I kidding I couldn’t afford to pay someone that smart.
Self-deprecation aside, I don’t know of any non-human features I’d want, I’d just wanna OC my metabolism for a while.