[–] dryitmat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I would want to keep a stock of 21 year old clones. Transfer my conscious into one of them on death.
I wouldn't want to be some powerful leader, or head of a multi-national corporation.
I just want to see what the fuck is going to happen for humanity. I want to observe what we are going to do, where we are exploring, the new discoveries that await our species. I want to be an observer until the extinction of humanity, whenever that may be.
But the only way I would want to live forever is if I could have my dog live forever alongside me. I will only ever truly love one women, and I need a companion. So thus, what a better fitting companion for the immortal man than his best friend.
[–] Ilikelamps 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I could sign up for that. :P
[–] crustyruffles 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I'd probably want the aging process in my body stopped. Being able to see the advances in technology and humans in general would be amazing. I'd love it.
That being said, I'd have zero interest in it if I couldn't have at least a loved with me for the ride.
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[–] woofWOOFwoof 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is a much more concise version of my thoughts. Life is thrilling because of the lack of it, I think. I have to use up every second, or elseI lose them forever. If I have all the time in the world, then seconds become unimportant. I'd waste away.
[–] RudigerSmoot [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
But you could die, at any time. You're not immortal, we're assuming science will go so far as to rejuvenate life if desired. If you want to die, just don't get "rejuvenated".
[–] woofWOOFwoof 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Do tell! What are the implications of technological singularity? I've always been curious what the fuss was all about.
[–] 1982 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago (edited ago)
The most profound implication is that for the first time since we were pitter-patterning around scourraging for food off the jungle floor on all fours, something will come into existence with relatively monumental intelligence. Nobody knows what will happen, nobody knows if it has already happened. The hypotheticals are equally infinite in quanitty. One such hypothetical is that everything is going to go in our favour and uploaded consciousness can be an overnight (literally overnight) reality. The hypothetical in which things do not go in our favour are equally, terrifyingly profound.
[–] Atryum 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
I think I would like to live forever. Nothingness terrifies me, even though I know it shouldn't. Even if I live a boring life, and all of my friends die, at least I exist. And I think that I might as well exist, rather than not. I don't really mind how I live forever -- I just don't want to die.
[–] RudigerSmoot [S] 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
I'm with you on that. If I ever got bored, I'd stop renewing my life, but I don't think I would ever get bored. Having the ability for infinite experiences and learning would be incredible.
[–] woofWOOFwoof 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
What's weird is that to me, living forever seems like the same thing as nothingness. I'd much rather die than face the monotony of life for all eternity. Funny how we all see things differently, eh?
[–] rumathlete_1 ago
it sounds like suicide but only after 100 years and having a family. You can have that and live forever. sure its sadness but knowing no part of me can or will live on, knowing I wont have any conscience left to experience anything is maddening to me. I need to know things. I am always trying to learn. Currently, its accounting and coding. I know weird mix up. I just need something that gives me access to knowledge and other people and I will beg to live forever.
[–] Atryum 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Huh, interesting how we do see it differently. I can't get behind that at all, as I feel like at least a state of existence allows for change (or, removal of monotony). Just having that ability to change makes it much more appealing than a state of non-existence which is just the end of my subjective universe. Terrifying.
[–] DoomMantia 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
As long as I retain the possibility of commiting suicide, yes. Living literally forever after the end of the Earth and then the heat-death of the universe would suck.
[–] Ilikelamps 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Depends if we ever find other universes or not. Time and spacey.
[–] organgrape ago
I would do it for sure if I always had new bodies.
I think immortality gets bad press because no one is openly immortal. I'd not be surprised if there were a small group of immortal people who are regular humans who became immortal through some harmless ritual, yet hide it from us and spread the idea that immortality would be bad so they can keep population numbers down. Also they're not regular humans they're reptilian and they aren't from Earth.