We'll all return to dirt, no matter what.
Deal with it.
eternal loli
The age I'm currently at
I swear to God. No one ever thinks of the political and cultural damage done when you remove death.
Oh but I'm perfectly mentally equipped to deal with eternal life (and not just afraid of dying) so it'll totally work out
I don't care what happens to the rest of you, as long as i get immortality! These weak conondrums to not apply to my superior intellect! Your uncertainty just reveals your worthiness of eternal life to be lacking! Face eternity and crumble, Mortals!
I wish he would have brought up longevity escape velocity - since that seems the most likely phase where anyone alive today might see biological immortality.
Not that people won't die - just that "natural causes" or "old age" will be a choice rather than inevitable.
Granted, I think @Deathtrooper 2.0 is right - no matter what I think we call will take the long dirt nap (eventually).
Who cares about political cultural and moral damage when you've got immortality. The time is now old man.
Death is the ultimate defense against evil, imagine having fucks like Kim, Trump, Putin, Erdogan and Xi Jinping around forever
Oh, and all the problems biological immortality would bring up makes for some really good scifi reads.
It honestly terrifies me that as we come crashing into what is going to probably be one of the painful periods of man that will either consume us with extinction or exaltation that there are people happily saying, "Man if only this was like Dues Ex".
It terrifies me that people would rather face a fictional hellscape than actually make things better.
cyberpunk hellscape is a preferable option to total extinction.
Only those who make it past 101 years of age should be given the choice to live forever.
I dunno about you guys but I'll like to live long enough to see what alien titties look like
Isaac Arthur mentioned something like this in one of his youtube vids. There is always some risk of death (new disease, crossing the road, wayward asteroid) so if we could live forever death would eventually be guaranteed.
Michio Kaku is a hack fraud who, while a knowledgeable physicist, tends to spread a lot of bullshit outside of that field. He has a long history of spreading myths about nuclear power for example.
It would not be my current age, that's for sure. I'm 25 and still am mistaken for a college freshmen or even a high-schooler. It's due to the genes I inherited from my mom (who at 54 could easily pass for a decade or more younger) and my grandfather (who as a middle aged married man was mistaken for his wife's son).
I'm guessing somewhere in my early 30s I'll finally hit the point where I look like a man, and not a kid. At the very least, I need to grow my beard out, and that process has been painfully slow.
I think I could handle immortality, I'd just roam the earth eternally and watch it all... happen.
And when the sun comes to consume the earth is when I'll finally call it.
I've always been down for that, not sure why.
Yeah but do you actually want to die? Me neither.
The problems that would arise from immortality are a small price to pay for, you know, immortality.
If immortality happens itll only be reserved for the ultra wealthy.
That's not how anything works. There's tremendous financial pressure to cheapen new technologies because it's much more profitable to sell cheaply to many people than expensively to few.
I'm mostly indifferent, but that ultimately doesn't matter. It's probably for the best that i'll die eventually, as depressing as that sounds.
No matter pur opinion, though, a straight up cure for death is nothing more than a fever dream. I'd look towards something more realistic if i were you.
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I'd like to live as long as I want but I'd rather be reincarnated. Unfortunately I can't make myself believe in an afterlife no matter how much I want one
Please don't assume anything about that.
Something that occurred to me about immortality awhile ago was that you run the risk of living just long enough to see your life get irreversibly screwed up by something that either kills you or makes you want to die, which is a shitty way to go out.
In a vacuum the ideal would probably be freezing your current age, doing everything else you wouldn't normally have time for, then unfreezing to settle down and have kids or whatever you want to do. But there are still way too many awkward things to consider in real life, e.g. if you decide to unfreeze your age, but now you're mentally way older than everybody you want to date/be friends with.
If I could just restart a new life at whatever point after death, I wouldn't mind eventually dying. Right now, as far as we know, once you die, you won't get to experience anything ever again.
i wanna age and die normally
and then carry all my knowledge and skills to my next incarnation
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