what would a realistic ideal human body be like, would it be resistant to cancer, resistant to autoimmune dieases, no ageging etc.

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Proper logging, to easily identify problems.

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Also root privileges. I should be able to edit the config files in /etc/

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What about potential rm -rf problems?

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They would be less messy than current options.

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the existence of a filesystem in the human body implies being able to mod and recompile body parts as you see fit

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25 points

Food hole different from breath hole.

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Can you imagine the hotdog eating contests?

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I think the concept of an ideal may be flawed. What is ideal changes based on what the current situation is.

That goes for the ideal human body as well as the ideal human philosophy. We need to evolve constantly to fit with our current situation.

People get fat because famines killed people a lot. People have sickle cell anemia because sickle cell traits protect against malaria which killed people a lot. A lot of cancers are caused by mechanisms that protect against things that kill people a lot. Different personality traits that look suboptimal exist because those strategies were successful over time. Yeah these traits look bad when that situation doesn’t exist, but they’re much more likely to help in the aggregate than to hurt particularly with stuff like cancers which tend to kick in after an individual has reproduced so don’t have as much of an evolutionary impact.

A lot of the same goes for philosophies – people tend to follow what works, and what works at one time doesn’t work all the time – ask gen z as they’re given advice by boomers.

All this is one good reason to be wary of genetic engineering. We’ll get rid of all the “bad traits” and be wiped out because some of them were there for good reasons we don’t understand.

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Fix the stupid fucking spine!!!

One little incident and you’re in pain for the rest of your life? Shitty design flaw.

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The knee needs a complete remodel as well. The whole thing reeks of reappropriating an old 4-leg design for a 2- leg model, and that’s just never going to work well.

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Well the prototype wasn’t even legs, so maybe we should just come up with an entirely new model?

I vote hexapod.

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Hexapod is bestapod

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yeah the spine has shittiest design tbh, i would defin prefer a syntheic spine that has improvements over an organic one

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The entire skeleton is basically just technical debt

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It’s worse than that, though. All the little squishy bits and nerves that connect to your brain!

Migraines, muscle weakness, paralysis… all that stuff can be caused because of your stupid spine!

Brain stem? Also connected to your spine.

Booooo!!

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Knew it even before i opened it

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