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the beauty of having root access, as demonstrated by nature

This is purely speculation, but I wonder if this "root access" doesn't also come with downsides, e.g. more gene defects, which would help explain the short lifespan of most cephalopods.

* Deletes System32 *

* dies *

IIRC it greatly limits the long-term flexibility, because most DNA changes will either break RNA edition or cascade into undesirable post-edition features.

It's like taking a program at v0.1 and then developing the entire thing via binary patches, at one point you've got so much binary patching going on any edition and recompilation of the source makes them not work.

What a wonderful way to see it.

Medicine and biohacking are simply tools to improve evolutionary fitness.

Those are week tools. If you want to greatly improve your evolutionary fitness have as many kids as possible (preferably with multiple partners). E.g. sign up as a sperm donor.

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