Exactly the sort of take I hope to find every time I browse HN.
A thoughtful "what if" that prompts reflection on a topic in a fundamentally unique way, even if it doesn't readily suggest a resolution.
Except it isn't thoughtful in the least, because it has absolutely no knowledge of the subject.
Exactly!
If we completely understood biology it would be possible to do this. That might be millennia away though.
If we completely understood biology, we wouldn’t need to wait for a tumour to come along in order to take advantage of that knowledge. A tumour would still be a nuisance, they don’t bring along any more resources. OP is talking nonsense.
Even if The Singularity isn’t Nearer, 1000 years seems like way too long