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?
I’m growing two huge demon horns on my head and you can’t stop me! Also a dragon tail probably some scales and gills. Now am I asking for too much with a bio luminescent uh… Penis?
Your future selfies are all over the internet already. Live your dreams!