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?
I’d remove my personal need for sleep, making it completely voluntary. But I wouldn’t tell anyone about it. I could use an extra eight hours of free time every day.
Ooh, I’ve always wanted this. I’m basically useless if I can’t get 10 hours sleep
Endogenous vitamins.
I’m not sure I understand.
What would this do and how would it work?
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.
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.
Do I have to have a biological body? I don’t want to be carbon based anymore.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel.
-MisterNeon
That quote gets thrown around at me alot. Which is weird since I paint Orks.
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
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).
So basically just like turn you into Data.
I was thinking a bit more industrial.
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.
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.
TIL Alex Mack probably smelled like a fart.
Good news! You are now water based! Nothing changed, enjoy your wish!
Awww c’mon this ain’t monkey paw.
Never change a running system. Even small changes may have unexpected consequences, if the machine is as complex as our bodies…
Counterpoint: the cable management of the human body is fucked
For extra fun show this to your friends who are on very powerful psychogenic chemicals
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…
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.
Pretty sure those changes were made to get us better vocal cords, allowing us more range for speech. Here’s the first link I found that talks about it.
How do you “reboot”, medically-induced coma?
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…
Found the robot!
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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?
Smaller penis.
Trade?
I wouldn’t wish this burden on anyone.
It’s not worth it my dude. Having a big ass dick is such a hassle.
Don’t worry, I’ll hold it for you and make things easier. I wouldn’t want to make it any harder than it has to be.
I would.
I’ve never seen an ass dick, is it pretty different from a regular dick?
Yeah instead of a bell end and balls it has an anus and cheeks.
Like a reverse dick butt?
It’s just how you use it…
Oh wow so you shit out your dick? Very inventive
I’d get a new bum. Mine’s cracked.
That’s nothing, mine has a hole that goes all the way through!
If you really think about it, people are just donuts with anxiety
Hold on, just a thought. If a straw only has one hole because it goes all the way through, then anus and mouth are both the same hole.
We are NOT having the “how many holes does a straw have?” arguement again!
Why not?
I thought we all agreed that a straw was a tube with one hole all the way through it, and that one hole has two openings.
You could become the unibummer.
MEND BUTTCRACK
I’d give myself a nice set of teeth. Not 100% perfect cause I find that off putting, but 90% perfect. Slight imperfections are what make a beautiful smile imo
I’m in the process of getting all my teeth pulled for dentures.
I would make changes.
Balls the size of peas and a cock fat as a cigarette. That oughta get the guys and gals going
estrogen from the get go, the rest can do whatever
Everyone would make changes you fucking snowflakes
My biggest wants are to have a body that at least works. Gimme garunteed function out of my stupid organs, which is admittedly a given in the prompt but ***FUCK. *** I’d honestly keep my probable autism, as I got exceptionally lucky and managed to find a career niche that effectively monetizes my neurodivergency (which is SUCH A FUCKED STATEMENT), but my ADHD is much more of an impediment to my personal and professional life- I’d turn that down considerably. Past that, if I’ve got the opportunity- I’m tired of my frail POS frame, and have a disposition towards giant dragon men. Give me durable scales, enormous muscles, and practical wings so I can help my friends, family, and I make reality match our dreams without fucking my skin up, needing a ton of help, or paying morbillions to just keep a vehicle OLDER THAN I AM insured. Peak male performance is being able to fly groceries home and fix your friend’s shit for them no matter HOW big the appliance is. I’m gay as fuck and want the biggest dick physically sustainable, but I’d be willing to accept NO cock if meant meaningful independence and the ability to help others with major electroni-mechani-fluidi-cal infrastructure issues single-handedly and with ease. For now, I’m just going to have to pay out my ass for safe equipment or skilled labor that can do what I can’t. Modern society is a technological onion of such magnitude that human ability, physical or otherwise, is only able to maintain a vanishingly tiny amount of it, and the tools that enable one to cover a reasonable amount of it are only getting more expensive and obsfuscated. Fight the enshittification of the wheels that turn society by turning yourself into a horrifically sexy monster, preferably one descended from ideas that have been playing humanity since we discovered methods of writing our nightmares down.
which is SUCH A FUCKED STATEMENT)
to be clear, i don’t think it’s a fucked statement.
I think the fact that you need to do that properly, is a fucked concept.
SzPD bros getting the worst end of the stick in that regard.
Well I’m beginning to bald… I want that full head of hair
Besides the common stuff, I would add an extra set of arms. Who couldn’t use 4 arms?
Hell, might as well throw in a prehensile tail while we’re at it
GENERAL KENOBI!!
would you change yourself from your genetic baseline
Yeah, I’d get rid of Celiac’s for one. There are other potential inherited conditions that I’d enjoy not having as well (colorblindness, etc.).
I think I’d keep aphantasia since the opposite (and the inner monologue that is actually heard) seems like it would be hell.
The neurodivergence I’m not sure. I would probably want to keep it even though it does sometimes (often?) cause pain.
Physically, I’d repair a lot of damage done to my body (metal rods and plates hold together parts of me, among other things).
