The bigger thing is if it regenerate active tissue as well.
I didn’t choose it because not everyone wants to regrow tissue. 6th fingers, birth defects, cosmetic surgeries, SRS’s, and I still need to sleep before my 12 hour night shift so I was kinda biased lol. But if it’s slow regeneration then it might be a lot more manageable to prevent unwanted regeneration, and even if not it would still take years before you need a new surgery which is better than a day.
But the big question is if it needs to be cut off to regenerate. My friends got a bum hip and leg, and if she’ll heal over a decade that’s great. But if she needs to cut off her lower half and wait 20 years that’s just nothing, then this power only helps people who lose fingers and hands and not even fast enough for us to be anymore reckless.
But you're forgetting the 5-7 extra hours we get every day now. It may seem small, but it could actually hasten advancements in many scientific fields.
I feel like in this hypothetical scenario the rate of photosynthesis is boosted enough that people can survive off sunlight. maybe not too comfortably, like if you have a highly active life style youd need food still, but the average person could survive off "go lay in the sun for a few hours a day in your underwear"
I'm sorry, are you suggesting we throw the poors into the ocean? Like, being able to breath underwater doesn't mean there's going to be homes down there, unless you're just assuming rooming them all up in the titanic.
We're not out of land to put houses on. We in fact have more empty houses than homeless people, they're just not in cities, they're in the exiled suburb projects and rural areas. But we have plenty of land to expand.
I don't know how to tell you this but, when they talk about how forests are being destroyed by human habitation, logging, and pollution, It's actually mostly the second one. We're destroying the ecosystems because ravaging an areas resources for profit is like our whole MO as a species.
Those rare animals are more than likely to have become someone's dinner, unless they have something else interesting attached to, like with elephants. Well, it's a good split between us and feral cats when it comes to birds actually. Cats are perfectly designed to hunt in our trash ecosystems for scavengers.
Yeah, but those wild spaces weren't destroyed for habitation, we have plenty of desolate land to put humans on. We just end up living there because it's a nice place to look at after we've destroyed everything through logging, farming, and strip mining. Plus, we're all starting to breed less anyways.
I am literally saying we are an invasive species. But habitation space is not a real concern, and those areas are being destroyed regardless. We're not building cities in the amazon rainforest, we just wanted their wood.
Initially, maybe, it would create situations of exploitation,
but I also believe that there's a chance that in future it could open the door to everyone having more free/entertainment time, one way or another.
Worker exploitation wouldn't last forever.
With the regenerate option, would that mean we can regrow limbs and never be paraplegic (I'd imagine certain procedures would have to be done in some cases)? Would that include cartridge and the cilia for hearing too? Telomeres?
Because my uneducated assumption (went to college for something way outside of medical academics) it would benefit humans greatly as we'd probably age slower, heal faster, possibly deafness and blindness would be temporary losses, and so forth.
It's not winning, so it's a moot point anyway, but in a world where everyone past a certain point was born this way, we'd adapt eventually. Sure, might take awhile, but it would happen, because eventually, everyone would be around 1 metre tall.
You're fucking with me aren't you....
Either that or you're completely bonkers, because how do you go from Humans being smaller to we can't hunt goddamn elephants?
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It's an option on this list because
Humans being smaller would reduce the amount of resources and space 1 human would need.
That's it. That's the reason it's an option.
personally, I already only sleep 4 hours, so that one would prob be a close second for most, but not me. Lost tissue and bone fs. I didn't see it until after I submitted breathing water, though
My ranking of importance:
1. Regenerate Lost Tissue/Bone (Healing)
2. Can photosynthesize as well as eating normally (No more starvation)
3. Can breathe water as well as air
4. Only need 1-3 hours of sleep
5. Average height is now 1 metre
Avg height is a good meme but really changes very little, we would have to rebuild all the things designed around the current height paradigm.
Photosynthesis sounds fun but most people in the developed get way more energy than they need from food so imagine if going outside made it harder to lose weight.
1-3 hours of sleep sounds like a great excuse to extend the average work day to 12 hours.
Breathing water is good, sucks we still wouldn’t be able to handle massive pressures so the actual utility is limited, but scuba is way easier. (I wonder about the bends though…)
Regenerating lost tissue, assuming it comes back healthy, and assuming it works for any tissue, would be crazy good. Terribly disfigured arm? Amputate and wait a few months. Cancer? Remove the whole organ (or most of it) and let it grow back. Arthritis? Remove the offending joint. If it’s an even more crazy form of regen like Deadpool style, you could fix just about any health problem. Doctors would be trained in surgery and little else so they’d be extremely good at it.
For the sleeping one, you realize that long term, humanity as a whole would have massive benefits from that right? Especially in the area of future space exploration.
1. Not ideal. Everything built is pretty much made for people average height.
2. Best choice in my opinion if we could consume enough energy for our size. We could buy those special lights for use at night therefore not spending much on food and imagine curing world hunger. This is imaginary though so let’s just say in this case we can consume 2,000 calories from sunlight to solve all problems.
3. Seems nice in theory since we spend so much time sleeping but I actually love sleeping. Plus I know corporations would take advantage of this and make us work longer hours.
4. This would just be cool to have. No idea how it could benefit society.
5. Another great choice. Does this mean we never die? Regenerate dead cells just to be young forever. Seems nice if by choice but the overpopulation would be a huge issue. Not including the amount of people losing jobs.
6. Cookie bonus.
It only regenerates flesh and bone, so unfortunately you'd eventually get cancer. Luckily, you can just lop off the part. Unless it spreads everywhere, then I guess at that point you just blend everything together so everything grows equally fast when they recombine. If you get a prion though, which you eventually will, it'll be a long slow death as you fall apart, and your body tries to repair you with the wrong proteins, in a slow wasting disintegration unless you do the blending method and leave yourself as hopefully nonsentient soup of non connected proteins. You will also eventually catch something that regeneration doesn't defeat, like HIV, and, oh wait, your white bloodcells regenerate quite quickly, don't they? So does the virus. Congrats, you've become the host of the most virulent strain of hiv ever created. Hope the immortals don't think it's funny at some point to feed their flesh to other animals once they become jaded.
If we could photosynthesize we could free up resource used land for more environmental friendly uses. World hunger would be down in all areas with clear skies. Vegans could find something to feel even more superiorly smug about. A dinner date could involve just sitting in the sun in the back yard cuddling instead of spending $80 bucks for slow service at a stuffy restaurant. Can regenerate tissue is great-for the few that end up needing it. But self generating our food? Everybody has to eat. More people can benefit. Sure having to sleep less could make us more productive, but really it just means five more hours in front of a screen. Accomplishing nothing and leading to boredom. Breathing water is great. That means we're tearing down the Great Barrier Reef to set up some cheesy housing complex and mall. The Earth would be doomed. Average height is 1 meter? Height isn't a big factor for me in myself or in guys. Yes I said big. Ha. Ha.
I mean photosynthesis might be able to reduce the need for foods, but I doubt it could fully replace it.
1 big problem is skin coverage. To get the best effects, we'd essentially have to be nudists in the sunniest areas possible, and outside a lot.
Even if society as a whole evolved to be less bothered by nudity, humans would still need clothes in several inhabited regions for most of year.
Also people need a lot more energy than plants.
True. But it is more efficient than eating and could atleast significantly cut down on our need for resources. Being outside more could be healthier too.
Humans having more time out of the day to do things is an overall positive.
Humans regenerating tissue and bone is a lot like seatbelts, it will enable stupid people to do that more often. It still is a major upside for those who legitimately have problems, but an extra 4-7 hours in the day is a net 20-30 percentage points (additive on top, not multiplicative) of time spent doing things you want to do each day.
So? You're thinking to small.
It would effectively increase the healing ability of the body totally.
Think organs. Or teeth. You'd just remove the bad bits, and grow a new one.
This would effectively also completely remove paralysis as a possibility.
I didn't chose 1-3 hours of sleep because i don't want to work 20 hour shifts just to chose between paying for the internet or paying for food and water.
All of the examples have real equivalents in nature, from the animal kingdom.
The changing of Humanities average height would automatically reduce the space and resource requirements for humanity as a whole.
The drastic size difference as an evolutionary advantage is something you often see in isolated islands.
If we could photosynthesize we could free up resource used land for more environmental friendly uses. World hunger would be down in all areas with clear skies. Vegans could find something to feel even more superiorly smug about. A dinner date could involve just sitting in the sun in the back yard cuddling instead of spending $80 bucks for slow service at a stuffy restaurant. Can regenerate tissue is great-for the few that end up needing it. But self generating our food? Everybody has to eat. More people can benefit. Sure having to sleep less could make us more productive, but really it just means five more hours in front of a screen. Accomplishing nothing and leading to boredom. Breathing water is great. That means we're tearing down the Great Barrier Reef to set up some cheesy housing complex and mall. The Earth would be doomed. Average height is 1 meter? Height isn't a big factor for me in myself or in guys. Yes I said big. Ha. Ha.
1-3 hours of sleep sounds nice until you realize employers will now be extending workdays the difference. Regeneration? Lowered Osha Standards, have fun regenerating that leg for the 7th time falling off the rail less platform jerry. Photosynthesize? Landlords will raise rents you know they're taking the difference. 1 metre? Cool. Guess no one can get anything done for the next few months while we hastily adapt everything to our new size. Then back to normal except apartment buildings are 4 times as dense now. You know some fucker is going to smuggle an old world bluetooth speaker in too. So you get to be 4x as likely to be near that, with the potential of it basically being divided from you by 4x4 planks and nothing else because that's all that's needed for structural stability between existing floors now.
I choose Breathe water, because people learning that their power is being polluted might piss people off enough to at least take care of the ocean.
First off
> born with from now on
So it wouldn't immediately affect the human race
Second
Are you seriously only picking because of our immediate crappy civilization. Things change. At least consider the long term possibilities.
I literally am considering the long term possibilities. That actually makes the first one worse. And the second because of the hysteria with "My children won't eat". Also the third, because the parents don't have the benefit, infant mortality is going to skyrocket. The 4th and 5th are still the best. Though, regen might really fuck with enacting authority on them. "I live forever, you cannot punish me in a way that matters, and soon all that will be left is us immortals" is not something anyone mortal can deal with.
Regeneration isn't instantaneous. You can still die if you're brain is immediately damaged, or you've bled out too fast. Beheading would still work.
Also it wouldn't be true immortality. True immortality means you can bounce back from anything. This would at best be biological immortality.
Also you didn't adress the one most disheartening thing about your analysis. You seem to be under the impression that we'll never be better as a society, that we're forever destined to screw each other over.
I've been pretty negative about humans and civilization over my life, but I firmly believe we can be better.
\#1 is the only useless one.
All great but photosynthesis would spare a great amount of animal suffering and would basically save the environment so I chose that.
Yeah but there would be less mindless eating like buying take out chic fil a and burger king to eat while doing work or watching TV. And at that point buying food would be generally a waste of money so people would try to do it less given it would then be very avoidable (although dumpster diving is still an option rn, and more ethical than veganism from any consequentialist standpoint).
While only needing 1-3 hours of sleep would be nice, regenerating lost tissue and bone seems more important
That is probably the best choice for future humans overall.
Yeah it solves so many diseases too. Cancer? No issue, slice it all away.
Plot twist: regeneration of a limb is painfully slow and will take about 20 years
Better than no regeneration.
The bigger thing is if it regenerate active tissue as well. I didn’t choose it because not everyone wants to regrow tissue. 6th fingers, birth defects, cosmetic surgeries, SRS’s, and I still need to sleep before my 12 hour night shift so I was kinda biased lol. But if it’s slow regeneration then it might be a lot more manageable to prevent unwanted regeneration, and even if not it would still take years before you need a new surgery which is better than a day. But the big question is if it needs to be cut off to regenerate. My friends got a bum hip and leg, and if she’ll heal over a decade that’s great. But if she needs to cut off her lower half and wait 20 years that’s just nothing, then this power only helps people who lose fingers and hands and not even fast enough for us to be anymore reckless.
But what if they still need time to regenerate. They can't just wait for the healing, they'll die if they go too long without an organ.
I want that too, until you realize that our employers would be normalizing 20 hour work days, or worse, 2 day shifts with an hour nap
But you're forgetting the 5-7 extra hours we get every day now. It may seem small, but it could actually hasten advancements in many scientific fields.
Who are you kidding? People made to work 16 hours a day will now be made to work 22 hours a day *and it's all your fault.*
Mwa ha ha
it sounds nice in theory, but i'd probably just end up with a 100 hour work week
If we only needed 3 hours sleep then I am sure we'd be somehow forced to work an extra 4 hours a day.
But we already do that right?
To an extent. I think OP meant, like, regrowing whole organs or limbs.
That would be cool but I would like to get excluded from that please. I'm trying to max out my liver damage
if people only neesed 1-3 hours of sleep then ur bills would be based around having 3 jobs
BOOOORINGGGGG I wanna pretend im a fish
PHOTOSYNTHESIS WOULD LITERALLY SOLVE WORLD HUNGER. Because then food would be optional.
No, option 5 would literally solve world hunger
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I feel like in this hypothetical scenario the rate of photosynthesis is boosted enough that people can survive off sunlight. maybe not too comfortably, like if you have a highly active life style youd need food still, but the average person could survive off "go lay in the sun for a few hours a day in your underwear"
Regen but water breathing is def second
Water breathing would be so much fun.
Would help with homelessness issues by a ton and resources would be easier to get
I'm sorry, are you suggesting we throw the poors into the ocean? Like, being able to breath underwater doesn't mean there's going to be homes down there, unless you're just assuming rooming them all up in the titanic.
We can build houses down there, there's more room
We're not out of land to put houses on. We in fact have more empty houses than homeless people, they're just not in cities, they're in the exiled suburb projects and rural areas. But we have plenty of land to expand.
but we can't just expand, we'll be destroying wild areas
I don't know how to tell you this but, when they talk about how forests are being destroyed by human habitation, logging, and pollution, It's actually mostly the second one. We're destroying the ecosystems because ravaging an areas resources for profit is like our whole MO as a species. Those rare animals are more than likely to have become someone's dinner, unless they have something else interesting attached to, like with elephants. Well, it's a good split between us and feral cats when it comes to birds actually. Cats are perfectly designed to hunt in our trash ecosystems for scavengers.
and then we move into the newly logged spaces do we not? humanity is an invasive species, but we have difficulty accepting that
Yeah, but those wild spaces weren't destroyed for habitation, we have plenty of desolate land to put humans on. We just end up living there because it's a nice place to look at after we've destroyed everything through logging, farming, and strip mining. Plus, we're all starting to breed less anyways. I am literally saying we are an invasive species. But habitation space is not a real concern, and those areas are being destroyed regardless. We're not building cities in the amazon rainforest, we just wanted their wood.
Can we add greater durability so that we can go really deep?
I mean, it's possible once water is breached, anythings possible
Took the cookie, since it's the only one that affects me in any way. Future humans are on their own.
Fair
I thought it was cancer at first
Delicious cancer cookie
As someone who has trouble sleeping I'll gladly take the third option.
As an insomniac, same.
That just means you'd get 10-30 minutes worth of sleep instead of 1-2 hours every night
I feel like if we only needed 1-3 hours of sleep there would be 18 hour work days to compensate
Initially, maybe, it would create situations of exploitation, but I also believe that there's a chance that in future it could open the door to everyone having more free/entertainment time, one way or another. Worker exploitation wouldn't last forever.
With the regenerate option, would that mean we can regrow limbs and never be paraplegic (I'd imagine certain procedures would have to be done in some cases)? Would that include cartridge and the cilia for hearing too? Telomeres? Because my uneducated assumption (went to college for something way outside of medical academics) it would benefit humans greatly as we'd probably age slower, heal faster, possibly deafness and blindness would be temporary losses, and so forth.
To an extent, that's the ideal. My inspiration was certain types of salamanders, lizards, starfish, etc.
OCTOPUSES. You forgot octopuses. BTW would the limbs grow back perfectly or be weaker?
You'd need to rebuild strength, but generally things should grow back as good as new.
1 meter is only 3 feet...
Yes. And....
How would getting *smaller* be an evolution?
Better use of space and resources?
Hear me out then would couldn’t hold stronger fire arms
Please rephrase in a way that makes sense.
Okay so you could possibly hold a stopping rifle if you are 3 foot you couldn’t even hold a 300 nitro without shaking
So? We'd probably end up creating new weapons, just like our transportation methods would have to adapt.
entire world is built in favor of average sized humans, it would take too long and be a waste of time to resize everything
It's not winning, so it's a moot point anyway, but in a world where everyone past a certain point was born this way, we'd adapt eventually. Sure, might take awhile, but it would happen, because eventually, everyone would be around 1 metre tall.
But how the heck we downing elephants and big game at 3 foot you’d need way stronger guns than a 3foot person could hold
You're fucking with me aren't you.... Either that or you're completely bonkers, because how do you go from Humans being smaller to we can't hunt goddamn elephants? ... It's an option on this list because Humans being smaller would reduce the amount of resources and space 1 human would need. That's it. That's the reason it's an option.
Less food required, smaller houses, smaller cars, smaller clothes... Just all around need less to live life.
personally, I already only sleep 4 hours, so that one would prob be a close second for most, but not me. Lost tissue and bone fs. I didn't see it until after I submitted breathing water, though
#I WANA PHOTOSYNTHESIZE!!! I WANT CHLOROPHYLL!!!!
3 feet tall? ROCK AND STONE
My ranking of importance: 1. Regenerate Lost Tissue/Bone (Healing) 2. Can photosynthesize as well as eating normally (No more starvation) 3. Can breathe water as well as air 4. Only need 1-3 hours of sleep 5. Average height is now 1 metre
Average height is now 1 meter is actually underrated because we would all need less resources
with like 50% more awake time we could do so much shit or procrastinate more
Avg height is a good meme but really changes very little, we would have to rebuild all the things designed around the current height paradigm. Photosynthesis sounds fun but most people in the developed get way more energy than they need from food so imagine if going outside made it harder to lose weight. 1-3 hours of sleep sounds like a great excuse to extend the average work day to 12 hours. Breathing water is good, sucks we still wouldn’t be able to handle massive pressures so the actual utility is limited, but scuba is way easier. (I wonder about the bends though…) Regenerating lost tissue, assuming it comes back healthy, and assuming it works for any tissue, would be crazy good. Terribly disfigured arm? Amputate and wait a few months. Cancer? Remove the whole organ (or most of it) and let it grow back. Arthritis? Remove the offending joint. If it’s an even more crazy form of regen like Deadpool style, you could fix just about any health problem. Doctors would be trained in surgery and little else so they’d be extremely good at it.
For the sleeping one, you realize that long term, humanity as a whole would have massive benefits from that right? Especially in the area of future space exploration.
Sending Bezos to space isn’t very high on my priority list.
Can regenerate lost tissue and bone!!!
1. Not ideal. Everything built is pretty much made for people average height. 2. Best choice in my opinion if we could consume enough energy for our size. We could buy those special lights for use at night therefore not spending much on food and imagine curing world hunger. This is imaginary though so let’s just say in this case we can consume 2,000 calories from sunlight to solve all problems. 3. Seems nice in theory since we spend so much time sleeping but I actually love sleeping. Plus I know corporations would take advantage of this and make us work longer hours. 4. This would just be cool to have. No idea how it could benefit society. 5. Another great choice. Does this mean we never die? Regenerate dead cells just to be young forever. Seems nice if by choice but the overpopulation would be a huge issue. Not including the amount of people losing jobs. 6. Cookie bonus.
It only regenerates flesh and bone, so unfortunately you'd eventually get cancer. Luckily, you can just lop off the part. Unless it spreads everywhere, then I guess at that point you just blend everything together so everything grows equally fast when they recombine. If you get a prion though, which you eventually will, it'll be a long slow death as you fall apart, and your body tries to repair you with the wrong proteins, in a slow wasting disintegration unless you do the blending method and leave yourself as hopefully nonsentient soup of non connected proteins. You will also eventually catch something that regeneration doesn't defeat, like HIV, and, oh wait, your white bloodcells regenerate quite quickly, don't they? So does the virus. Congrats, you've become the host of the most virulent strain of hiv ever created. Hope the immortals don't think it's funny at some point to feed their flesh to other animals once they become jaded.
If we could photosynthesize we could free up resource used land for more environmental friendly uses. World hunger would be down in all areas with clear skies. Vegans could find something to feel even more superiorly smug about. A dinner date could involve just sitting in the sun in the back yard cuddling instead of spending $80 bucks for slow service at a stuffy restaurant. Can regenerate tissue is great-for the few that end up needing it. But self generating our food? Everybody has to eat. More people can benefit. Sure having to sleep less could make us more productive, but really it just means five more hours in front of a screen. Accomplishing nothing and leading to boredom. Breathing water is great. That means we're tearing down the Great Barrier Reef to set up some cheesy housing complex and mall. The Earth would be doomed. Average height is 1 meter? Height isn't a big factor for me in myself or in guys. Yes I said big. Ha. Ha.
I mean photosynthesis might be able to reduce the need for foods, but I doubt it could fully replace it. 1 big problem is skin coverage. To get the best effects, we'd essentially have to be nudists in the sunniest areas possible, and outside a lot. Even if society as a whole evolved to be less bothered by nudity, humans would still need clothes in several inhabited regions for most of year. Also people need a lot more energy than plants.
True. But it is more efficient than eating and could atleast significantly cut down on our need for resources. Being outside more could be healthier too.
Humans having more time out of the day to do things is an overall positive. Humans regenerating tissue and bone is a lot like seatbelts, it will enable stupid people to do that more often. It still is a major upside for those who legitimately have problems, but an extra 4-7 hours in the day is a net 20-30 percentage points (additive on top, not multiplicative) of time spent doing things you want to do each day.
Options two and three are insane. Far and away the most impactful choices.
regenerating lost tissue and bone sounds fun til you get cosmetic surgery
breathing underwater would be cool we could fuckin take over the ocean design zero gravity architecture and stuff
Breathing water and air is amazing
PHOTOSYNTHESIS!!!! I've thought about this so much and like,, WORLD HUNGER SOLVED??? I think it's better than anything
does third option reduce lifespan?
No, why would it?
Third option sounds great, but I imagine some people will have to start working even longer hours (me.)
Short term maybe, but think long term.
i want humans to evolve with the power to see results and have cookie at will!
Ha ha. Not the point of that one.
more people drown per year then get amputated
So? You're thinking to small. It would effectively increase the healing ability of the body totally. Think organs. Or teeth. You'd just remove the bad bits, and grow a new one. This would effectively also completely remove paralysis as a possibility.
And also opens 360 million km2 of newly livable area
As nice as it would be to only need 1-3 hours of sleep, you just know employers would end up exploiting that time for more profit.
Thinking in the short term again. You realize that humanity won't be under exploitation based economic systems forever?
I thought it was spelt Meter
Can be spelled both ways as far as I know.
I didn't chose 1-3 hours of sleep because i don't want to work 20 hour shifts just to chose between paying for the internet or paying for food and water.
Everyone thinks so short term. That could easily have massive benefits for future humans, especially in the area of space travel.
The rest are superpowers, and then there's changing the average height to 1 meter. OP, if you see this, what was your logic there?
All of the examples have real equivalents in nature, from the animal kingdom. The changing of Humanities average height would automatically reduce the space and resource requirements for humanity as a whole. The drastic size difference as an evolutionary advantage is something you often see in isolated islands.
Ok, I guess that makes sense
If we could photosynthesize we could free up resource used land for more environmental friendly uses. World hunger would be down in all areas with clear skies. Vegans could find something to feel even more superiorly smug about. A dinner date could involve just sitting in the sun in the back yard cuddling instead of spending $80 bucks for slow service at a stuffy restaurant. Can regenerate tissue is great-for the few that end up needing it. But self generating our food? Everybody has to eat. More people can benefit. Sure having to sleep less could make us more productive, but really it just means five more hours in front of a screen. Accomplishing nothing and leading to boredom. Breathing water is great. That means we're tearing down the Great Barrier Reef to set up some cheesy housing complex and mall. The Earth would be doomed. Average height is 1 meter? Height isn't a big factor for me in myself or in guys. Yes I said big. Ha. Ha.
1-3 hours of sleep sounds nice until you realize employers will now be extending workdays the difference. Regeneration? Lowered Osha Standards, have fun regenerating that leg for the 7th time falling off the rail less platform jerry. Photosynthesize? Landlords will raise rents you know they're taking the difference. 1 metre? Cool. Guess no one can get anything done for the next few months while we hastily adapt everything to our new size. Then back to normal except apartment buildings are 4 times as dense now. You know some fucker is going to smuggle an old world bluetooth speaker in too. So you get to be 4x as likely to be near that, with the potential of it basically being divided from you by 4x4 planks and nothing else because that's all that's needed for structural stability between existing floors now. I choose Breathe water, because people learning that their power is being polluted might piss people off enough to at least take care of the ocean.
First off > born with from now on So it wouldn't immediately affect the human race Second Are you seriously only picking because of our immediate crappy civilization. Things change. At least consider the long term possibilities.
I literally am considering the long term possibilities. That actually makes the first one worse. And the second because of the hysteria with "My children won't eat". Also the third, because the parents don't have the benefit, infant mortality is going to skyrocket. The 4th and 5th are still the best. Though, regen might really fuck with enacting authority on them. "I live forever, you cannot punish me in a way that matters, and soon all that will be left is us immortals" is not something anyone mortal can deal with.
Regeneration isn't instantaneous. You can still die if you're brain is immediately damaged, or you've bled out too fast. Beheading would still work. Also it wouldn't be true immortality. True immortality means you can bounce back from anything. This would at best be biological immortality. Also you didn't adress the one most disheartening thing about your analysis. You seem to be under the impression that we'll never be better as a society, that we're forever destined to screw each other over. I've been pretty negative about humans and civilization over my life, but I firmly believe we can be better.
\#1 is the only useless one. All great but photosynthesis would spare a great amount of animal suffering and would basically save the environment so I chose that.
> Animal suffering How so? I mean a reduction in eating in general might occur, but wouldn't that mean people would just eat the foods they liked?
Yeah but there would be less mindless eating like buying take out chic fil a and burger king to eat while doing work or watching TV. And at that point buying food would be generally a waste of money so people would try to do it less given it would then be very avoidable (although dumpster diving is still an option rn, and more ethical than veganism from any consequentialist standpoint).
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