Would you prefer supervision, supersmell, superfeel, superhearing, or supertaste? And what about the other senses of the body that are not part of the quintet? Think balance, temperature, and even the ability to feel where all your body parts are (you can close your eyes, wave your hands around, and touch your knee)

For me, I would pick supervision. It would be really cool to see better in the dark, have built-in camera zoom, and see in higher detail.

  • sbird@sopuli.xyzOP
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    27 days ago

    There’s also superpain, but I don’t think many would want that…

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    Super hearing, to the point of echolocation (Which apparently some blind people can actually do in a very basic form as a learned skill!?)

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    Assuming supertaste enables me to make broccoli taste like Pad Thai. I’ll go with that one.

    If it only heightens the sense - then probably less likely to pick that one.

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    Considering I’ve got sensory sensitivity to almost all of that (yay being ND) any further would sound like hell.

    I would enjoy the enhanced ability to feel hunger cues appropriately or have a superhuman ability to interpret and react to my inner feelings, beyond even neurotypical capacities.

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    26 days ago

    I really need supervision.

    No, really, I am a danger to myself and others. Please keep an eye on me

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    I have really good hearing and it honestly sucks sometimes because you can’t really not hear some things when you really, really, really wish you couldn’t.

    With super-vision at least I can close my eyes.

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      27 days ago

      just give some rich doctor guy thousands of dollars to shine lasers into you’re eyeballs and you’re good to go

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    26 days ago

    As a guy who wears glasses, heightened vision would be awesome.

    Super hearing would be great, too. I’d love to be able to hear all the nuances of music and be able to hear it without turning it up.

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      27 days ago

      You could catch so many top secret agents discussing their top secret plans!

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    Depends if I can turn it on and off at will, or if it’s on all the time. Even super vision would likely result in a sensory overload, even seeing the inside of your eyelids when you close your eyes!

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    I have stronger than average taste and smell. Do not recommend. Various things taste pretty awful, I’m more sensitive to smells and even things I like can become overwhelming.

    I used to be able to see better in the dark than anyone I know, but that has faded with age. I’ve also always been somewhat colorblind so fixing that might be nice. I would also fix my hearing being kinda wonky (as in basically useless whenever multiple things are producing sound at once).

    I’m tempted to want some kind of better balance or electromagnetic perception (though that one could be awful for the same reason I wouldn’t want to see much beyond what I do on the visible light spectrum since UV radiation and infrared could be a wall of noise).