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[–] Atryum 0 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.

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[–] RudigerSmoot [S] 0 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.

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[–] woofWOOFwoof 0 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?

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[–] Atryum 0 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.

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[–] 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.

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[–] RudigerSmoot [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I guess some folks have more attachment to people than myself. With the ability to change my age, it's inevitable that I'd make new friends and families, and could therefore never truly be left alone. It would be terribly sad if one if my families chose to die instead of live forever, but more would come along.

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[–] MaMaPyCb 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I would like to live forever, and compound interest would be pretty awesome.

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[–] 1982 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

I love this shit. People simply DO NOT FUCKING UNDERSTAND the implications of the technological singularity. Shit is going to go DOWN this century. Either that, or it already has and we are just too fucking inferior to know.

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[–] woofWOOFwoof 0 points 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.

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[–] 1982 1 point 0 points (+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.

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[–] DoomMantia 0 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.

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[–] Ilikelamps 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Depends if we ever find other universes or not. Time and spacey.

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[–] PatFenis 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Nah man. I want to see the end.

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[–] DoomMantia ago 

Me too. I just don't want to live forever AFTER that.

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[–] Lilian 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I'm rather terrified of death, so I would definitely be okay with living forever. I would love to see humanity rise to interstellar travel, and maybe even the decline of human civilization. As long as I had some way of travelling through space, though. I guess kinda like Dr. Manhattan. If I could be like that, I could fulfill my life long, and as of yet unattainable, dream of exploring the universe. Hell, I might even stick around after the heat death of the universe, just to see what happens after that. I'd like to say that I'd only want it if I had some way of ending my own life, but honestly, I'd probably be okay with just existing probably forever.

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[–] nosg 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I don't know man, I don't want to outlive all my loved ones. "No parents should bury their sons".

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[–] pitenius 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Yet I do want to outlive my enemies...

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[–] RudigerSmoot [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I'd go for any of them, though transferring consciousness into a new body would be my first option, simply because I'd most likely have the option to backup my memories in case I died unexpectedly.

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[–] rumathlete_1 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I dont want the transfer, I want my entire brain put into a machine. Think of it like this. Say you have a word file and on it is "War and Peace". then its copied and put on another. that second copy could then be changed into anything like Mein Kampf. so while they were both originally a work of art, one is now the work of a mad man. I dont want there to be 2 possible versions of conscience. There can only be one and I want it to be the original, which is one I am using now.

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