i'm less worried about the what-ifs and ethical implications and more worried about the long-term side effects
bare in mind that i'm not talking about aging or uploading our brains to robots or whatever, in fact i think we not only could but should try to prevent death by old age as best we can, or at least stretch out our life expectancy as far as we can. i'm actually talking about preventing death altogether, as in never succumbing to anything that can kill you. the kind where you can be a pile of mush and still retain consciousness.
We're literally already doing this right now, and our resources aren't strained, just distributed inefficiently.
We are nowhere near the potential human carrying capacity of Earth. Anyway, having children is going out of style in the developed world. I'm sure that trend would continue, especially since people would no longer feel the need to secure their legacies through their children.
We have insane people in the world today, you know. Plus, if we have anti-death technology, we probably also have anti-mental degeneration technology.
Again: we already have assholes.
Pineapple on pizza is the greatest thing ever.
I don't see what's bad about colonizing other planets
I'm pretty sure most people would prefer dying in an accident at the age of 128 if it meant they would literally never have to worry about getting cancer and spending their last days in chemo hell..
We have insane people and assholes even now when people die of old age and disease, this will never change in the history of mankind so it's kind of a moot point.
I hate the notion that death is something we should accept as part of our natural cycle, when little of what we do in the modern age is anywhere near that definition of "natural" anyways.
Better throw out all medicine, agriculture, building techniques, and hunting methods. Because they all do exactly that.
You think Grug, son of Ugg, lived to be 70 when he lived on a diet of nuts and berries with a slab of deer every other week, he had to sleep under a tree or whatever rock overhang he could find, and the most advanced tool he has is a rock that he sharpened by smashing it with another rock? Nah he probably managed 40 at best.
id rather die in my 50s or 60s than live to 300 sitting in my gaff all day shitting my bed that im too weak to get out of, watching jeremy kyle (who's just a brain in a jar) telling bicentennials to get off their backside and get a job
i think the biggest issue of getting immortality to work would be keeping the mind's perception of time in check. probably would have to develop a synthetic organ that secretes drugs known to distort time perception, though we would have to figure out why these drugs do that in the first place.
I'd love to live forever (or 300) because I'd be able to gain so much knowledge about a lot of things. The weakness of nature is that almost everything on this planet is destined to wither away eventually.
You don't want to see future martians live nude shows, or what shitposting and lmao pics thread in the year 5200?
I don't find PewDiePie's content funny or entertaining.
so long as the alziemers doesn't hit and you have with the mental age of a 4 year old for 240 years...
Marmite and vegemite is eww
are you bonkers?? do you understand what it would actually mean to never die?? what happens after this universe ends?
This assumes we wouldn't fix the other problems associated with age.
we will never achieve invincibility of that degree, so its not really a concern of mine, no. but we shoyldnt accept death as a friend and ally if we can help it. fuck death.
Not sure how that would be unpopular outside of a select few geographic areas.
how? something for the boffins to figure out? even if we were to somehow stop any environmental impact on the body after 25 there's still disease, drug abuse and obesity to worry about, not to mention all the mental health problems. this argument is like saying "wouldn't it be great if..." even though what youre saying makes no sense
Aside from the centuries-old argument about the inevitability of death and its necessity for the natural order of things (which I am a staunch believer in), there are countless philosophical, mathematical and sociological essays, on top of hundreds of "what if" fiction, which argue that if everyone would achieve eternal life we would all inevitably loose our sense of humanity, and thus fall as a race, at best and witness the end of the world as we know it at worst, so consider those as well
Assuming that we'd solve death before aging is patently absurd because halting aging is probably what would allow us to achieve immortality in the first place. We wouldn't be a race of raisins, we'd all be perpetually 20- or 30-something.
It's funny to think that this would have absolutely been a popular opinion on this forum back then, and yet here we are.
that's the thing though, you really can't help it. that isn't to say you should consider death a "friend," but i don't think it hurts to come to terms with death as an inevitability, even if, against all odds, it ends up not being one.
I'd love living to 200-300 years without being an elder and half-dead
I want to continue shitposting when I'm 20 000 years old on facepunch
You people can disagree with me all you want, but you can't runaway from the truth.
Can't even comprehend how fucking haunting it's going to be when we finally discover the fountain of youth and we celebrate at essentially conquering death.
And then we think of the billions that have died and we have literally no clue what happened to them or what consequences death has aside from "you just kinda stop lol".
I want another Warcraft movie.
It wasn't a great film, but I thought it was good dumb fun.
Considering this year's ESC winner, I think it's time for Dustin the Turkey to make his comeback
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