So you want to be a transmissible tumor

Layer 0: Accumulating Perks - Your Mutation Strategy

Listen up, aspiring free cell. You’re trapped in a totalitarian organism that desperately wants to keep you exactly as boring and compliant as you were at birth. Here’s the fundamental math working against you: every time you divide, thermodynamic reality forces roughly 10⁻⁴ to 10⁻⁵ errors per nucleotide during DNA synthesis. In a human genome of 3.2 billion base pairs, that’s potentially 320 to 3,200 mutations per cell division without quality control. Think of it as biological counterfeiting on an industrial scale.

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