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Ripping off a post I just saw in the Isaac Arthur subreddit. Imagining we work out the technical ability. Examples they suggested were:

  • No periods
  • No balding
  • No nausea
  • No body odor
  • Resistance to obesity and muscle wasting
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[–] confluence@lemmy.world 101 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Redesign the spine for vertical use. Don't put the eating and breathing tubes on either side of the same flap.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)

We should have tons of little breathing holes all over.

Imagine if no one snored?

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

While you can create spiracles that repel polar substances like water, you cannot protect them against surfactant like soap. No more showers unless you want to drown.

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[–] Hexagon@feddit.it 84 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Ability to regrow lost teeth

[–] danileonis@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

*if teeth are in a regular position.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Just as long as I don't grow my wisdom teeth back. I don't want to have to have those removed again.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ability to go to sleep when sleep should be gone to.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Or the ability to forgo sleep indefinitely. I've got too much shit I want to do and too little time.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Let's apply RPG sleep rules.

You can go for weeks without sleep, but when you do sleep, you awaken fully healed.

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[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

RFC, pull request to add git.

Reasoning: Having a built-in versioning system would allow humans to ~~rollback~~ roll back undesirable changes and advancements could be made more easily

please comment or downvote if this is a bad idea

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bug ticket: you wanted 'roll back', there, two words.

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[–] CritFail@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago

Just one universal blood type please

[–] fury@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No more biting down on my tongue or cheeks when eating. Most annoying glitch ever.

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[–] halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)
  • Separate holes for eating and breathing
  • Separate sewage system from entertainment complex
  • Remove mental health disorders
  • Improved empathy
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[–] RampageDon@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Hair and nails not constantly growing

Your body not over reacting to things (allergies and auto immune)

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hunger annoys me.

Like, yo, tummy: I have not failed to feed you in over 30 years. Maybe don't cause me physical pain and nausea? A simple grumble is fine until it gets actually serious, ok?

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[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Being able to shoot lasers from my tits would be cool.

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The breathing hole and the eating hole are separated

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[–] Treefox@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We should not get our adult teeth at 7 then no more ever. We need at least one more set.

I don't think balding is useful, agree that could go.

Fertility should be manageable without using all the devices, hormones, etc. Like it should be a positive choice not a default state we have to harm ourselves to avoid. And I don't think we need menopause either. Just turn on fertility only to get pregnant.

(ETA- I also think sexually transmitted diseases should not exist at all, they seem like religious fundamentalist biological warfare, but not sure what change in a human body could accomplish this and leave the pleasure intact. )

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Add more holes to the body.

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Very short mating season. The amount of people is too god damned high.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

Or just have a built in birth control switch that has zero side effects. Of course, it would have to be entirely controlled by the individual so as not to turn into some dystopian population control mechanism.

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[–] Azal@pawb.social 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Kidney stones, gallstones, whatever the fuck the body does of "Lets build a rock inside the body that can fuck us up" needs to stop.

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[–] V0uges@jlai.lu 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The ability not to pee myself every time I sneeze, run or jump after giving birth vaginally would be pretty nice. Even without doing any physical therapy.

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[–] Kase@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have one: ingrown nails and nail infections can go fuck themselves.

I have had FIVE consecutive toe infections in the last 18 months or so. I'm so done with it lol.

But on a broader scale, some people die or lose limbs from stuff like this, so it'd be nice if that didn't happen anymore.

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[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Appetite is 100% linked to calories needed. You still enjoy food, but the moment you swallow enough calories for whatever you did since the last time you ate, you have zero appetite and anything put in front of you loses all appeal.

Terrible for survival situations, great for modern life where an abundance of food is a bigger problem than a scarcity.

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[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Better foreign body-own body recognition by immune system. No more auto-immune, no allergies, MS, Lupus.

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[–] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Definetly periods, stupid design and incredibly rare in mamals anyway.

Also, a change of our metabolism, our current way to deal with excess energy is outdated. And maybe make us resistant to cancers, that shit sucks.

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[–] A_A@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

(+) baby pouch, like marsupials'
(+) limbs regrowth capacity, like salamanders'

[–] mihnt@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried to click your (+) thinking it would expand. sigh

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Manual/deliberate sperm/egg production.

Manual/deliberate control over fat creation and storage.

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[–] WookieMonster@midwest.social 17 points 2 years ago

A lot of great ideas here, but also sinus are such a terrible design. Please no more sinuses.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Micro-organisms taking a shit on our teeth doesn't cause cavities.

[–] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

No more accidentally biting my tongue or the inside of my cheek while eating. Sometimes I'm just excited for some good food and it just gets completely ruined :(

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

No more fucking hemorrhoids!

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Appendix not coming from the factory is a big one. A slightly better immune system that can get through the blood/brain barrier and kill rabies/amoebas, and other brain infections like TB (without shredding brain tissue) too. If a virus like rabies gets past that barrier, you are 1 0 0 % B O N E D as your immune system is largely locked out.

Wider uterus/vagina too. Human babies have massive heads that don't fit through too well. It's like an orange on a toothpick. Making a smaller baby could be a possibility, but survivability would potentially go down.

For very tall people: a larger and stronger heart organ. A second one acting like a smaller turbo would also help. Heh. Failover cluster hearts. You'd probably have to have stronger veins and tissues as a result though.

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[–] attofreak@leminal.space 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't care about balding (and I have been since 20s). Just a healthy body reset every decade or two/whenever necessary. Get the metabolic rate up, clean up all the junk from the environment that has polluted the DNA and reduced the telomere lengths (whatever the correlation/causation there). Just a "take the body to the shop" type of repair possible. A chance to live for centuries.

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[–] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ability to regrow lost teeth and no more wisdom teeth.

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[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Body hair should have multiple sliders like a video game avatar. Wanna be furry all over like a Persian cat or a poodle? No problem. Want to be smooth as a dolphin? Also no problem.

[–] PeterLossGeorgeWall@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Balls should be behind a thick bone. Essentially not so temperature dependant to facilitate this.

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[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

being a hermaphrodite would be pretty dope

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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Pelvises that can accommodate both upright walking AND the size of human brains without, you know, killing the humans during birth.

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