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Today, 6:35 pm

Would you like to live to be 100 trillion years old?



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Today, 6:42 pm

Yes.

But I mean my consciousness surviving that long, I assume the physical form will be upgraded.

For the time-being I have a plan for living a very long time. Since I studied computers the plan is expressed as an algorithm:

Inhale, Exhale, Repeat


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Today, 7:13 pm

No way. Not to be too maudlin but I don't even want this life and would rather it ended sooner than later.

Also, how would one fill one's time for that long? Wouldn't everything be old hat and boring?



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Absolutely not. I've never understood people's obsession with immortality. If I live that long, everyone I love will die and I'll get sick of everything I enjoy and life will become boring. The world will change beyond anything recognizable today, and I already have a hard enough time handling today's technology I'm worried where I'll be in 50 years. And without death to worry about, I'll take procrastination to the extreme. What motivates me to live my life is knowing it's finite. Without that life has no meaning.

Given the continual improvement of medical technology, I'm hoping to make it to 2100. I'd be 95. That seems reasonable.


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Today, 8:31 pm

I'd rather live to be in my 90s like my great grandparents did.


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Today, 8:32 pm

As long as I was comfortable and happy, I'd want to live forever. In my old age, if anything I love life more than ever. At least so far. Must be a bummer outliving all your friends though, losing them all and having to keep making new ones. Unless they too lived forever. But think how many skills you could acquire, with all that time.



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Today, 8:37 pm

Wouldn't that mean I outlive the universe? :skull:


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Would I be a human or cyborg?


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Today, 9:09 pm

No. As a matter of fact, if I died tomorrow, I’d be greatly relieved.