genetic engineering? ai singularity perhaps? How do you intend to live forever?
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Fuck forever, just let my upcoming prostate biopsy be negative. I’m retiring and I have shit to do that doesn’t involve sitting in front of the TV wearing a diaper.
good luck, friend. this internet stranger will be keeping you in mind. nobody deserves some of the shit life dishes out, i sincerely hope this goes well for you.
I have “kidnapped” a small child and am brainwashing them to think like me.
they will be me, essentially.
one day they will do the same, and “I” will live on for eternity.
I don’t even think I wanna wake up tomorrow.
Why would anyone want this?
I won’t
I’ll try to eat healthy and exercise, but besides that I’m not planning on doing anything.
Just fly a rocket into a stable orbit near a black hole and wait until the time dilation causes 1000s of years to pass on earth, then go back and hope someone has figured it out.
If eternity is all time, and all the time I have is 80 or so years (hopefully), then that is eternity, for me. I’ll already live “forever”.
Thanks to denial, I’m immortal!
Mortality is a state of mind!
Only insane billionaires plan for that.
I’m not looking to live forever. Just another 40 to 50 years as long as I’m healthy. Only plan for that is to eat somewhat healthy and get a couple hours of cardio and strength training in a few times a week. Nothing obsurd just enough to maintain strength as I age and get the heart pumping.
There are treatments in development to keep you healthy much longer that currently.
you might end up like ray kurzweil, aging no matter what despite 300 pills popped every day
Those treatments are in development. Not is use yet. The intention is to periodically reverse aging to shift it to many years younger state. Then repeat after some time.
no serious pharma company tries to do that, it’s all high proof uncut transhumanist nonsense, served by crackpots, feeding on old scifi and rooted in the same impulse that driven alchemists in search of immortality
i’m of course not gonna stop you from believing in anything, do what you want
Well, I did looked into the science of it a bit.
oh you “did your own research”. i work in pharma and there’s plenty of real problems to be solved instead of chasing wishes of dead chinese emperors
Thanks for your service 🙏
Do you know what is the single biggest risk factor for mortality globally, and especially in developed countries?
I don’t want em
That is totally OK. You don’t, others do. You have no obligation to use them 👍
I have no intention of trying to be immortal, just try to live a long time through healthy eating and exercise
You only die when the last person forgets your name. So I’m going to be remembered forever, all books in history should have a dedicated page about me.
Oh no.
Enjoy!
I honestly can’t think of anything less appealing than dealing with other people forever.
Return question: If you do have a plan to live forever, do you have a plan B how to end it, when (not if) it becomes unbearable?
Or when (not if) you’ve lost the last shard of your sanity?i value life more the longer i exist, both mine and others, not less.
I only plan for things that are possible so no plan to live forever.
Having said that, scientists are working on a cure for aging. Even if they sort that out before I die, the treatments will be too expensive for me.
If you are under 40 and in age appropriate health, you have reasonable chance to benefit from anti-aging therapies. Start prepare 😉
Most probably they will be expensive af at the beginning. And similar to microwave ovens or mobile phones, they will become very affordable with time (economies of scale, experience curve, competition, expiration of patents). Probably even many countries will subsides them because they will keep people healthy longer (so they could work out be generally productive, rather then costing a lot of money on treatment of chronic diseases).
