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Count me in! I don't want to squander my resources on anyone but myself. As I often say, give me death or give me immortality! I am hopeful some crypto billio

by 1996 7y ago

Count me in! I don't want to squander my resources on anyone but myself. As I often say, give me death or give me immortality! I am hopeful some crypto billionaires will share the same mindset, and pour resources into anti aging research at the cellular level.

jacquesm 7y ago
I've got bad news for both of you: you're going to die, and you won't be resurrected. So better live your lives as if every day matters.
- 1996 7y ago
  Not bad news- I accept that by default, I'm going to lose the game. That's the "give me death" part. Still that don't mean I won't try the other part, removing everything that could stand between me and my objective. No kids = no college fund = more money to spend on life extending treatments if they become available I trust the human creativity will hack death someday. The only question is whether I will be alive to see that day. If I'm not, at least I will have contributed my money to the good fight.
  - jacquesm 7y ago
    The question you will need to answer is what you are living for. I do have children and their college fund is a rounding error on a lifetime of expenses, if I had to live life again and could choose to add another 100 years to the life I have or have children I would definitely have children again.
    - jelliclesfarm 7y ago
      Children are a way of copying DNA. They are NOT “you”. We will have a world where expenses and money will have no meaning whatsoever. What then? If you could have parts of your dna copied as your children and still retain you, what’s so awful about it?
    - jelliclesfarm 7y ago
      I don’t have children. DNA is too random. I might if I can design my own progeny. Or clone myself. It is also ‘technically’ ..theoretically possible to clone oneself. That’s a different discussion. Ideally I would like different ‘skins’ that I can step in and out of ..and keep all my memories and thoughts and ‘self’.
  - jelliclesfarm 7y ago
    life extension is not immortality. Do you want to extend the life of your body or be mind-immortal? Two entirely different things. Right now consciousness needs the physical shell to exist. What a Faustian bargain! FWIW, I believe uploading consciousness will happen in the next 20-30 years.
- jelliclesfarm 7y ago
  Of course. Every day matters. That’s why I want to have more quality in my days. I don’t want to grow old in an aging deteriorating physical shell. Others may feel different and that’s ok. I want life and experiences. I want to be able to control and maintain and manage my shell while still retaining the inner core of me. Because the inner core changes if the body fails us. Women know this and feel this more acutely than men. Because. Biology. It seems like these days men are competing with other men for resources just like women had to compete with men for resources. That’s what an overpopulated with fixed or shrinking resources/land mass will do to you.
- jelliclesfarm 7y ago
  Life extension is not resurrection. It’s not possible to bring back the dead(Russians and J.B.S.Haldane may disagree)...but to put it in simpler terms..can Entropy be reversed? Second law says no. But if only... The only other alternative is to upload ‘consciousness’, as it were.. entropy can be slowed down. Can’t be reversed or stopped. The arrow of time travels in only one direction.
jelliclesfarm 7y ago
you could start with intermittent fasting. Can’t guarantee immortality but hey! It’s free.

by 1996 7y ago

jacquesm 7y ago

I've got bad news for both of you: you're going to die, and you won't be resurrected. So better live your lives as if every day matters.

1996 7y ago
Not bad news- I accept that by default, I'm going to lose the game. That's the "give me death" part. Still that don't mean I won't try the other part, removing everything that could stand between me and my objective. No kids = no college fund = more money to spend on life extending treatments if they become available I trust the human creativity will hack death someday. The only question is whether I will be alive to see that day. If I'm not, at least I will have contributed my money to the good fight.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  The question you will need to answer is what you are living for. I do have children and their college fund is a rounding error on a lifetime of expenses, if I had to live life again and could choose to add another 100 years to the life I have or have children I would definitely have children again.
  - jelliclesfarm 7y ago
    Children are a way of copying DNA. They are NOT “you”. We will have a world where expenses and money will have no meaning whatsoever. What then? If you could have parts of your dna copied as your children and still retain you, what’s so awful about it?
  - jelliclesfarm 7y ago
    I don’t have children. DNA is too random. I might if I can design my own progeny. Or clone myself. It is also ‘technically’ ..theoretically possible to clone oneself. That’s a different discussion. Ideally I would like different ‘skins’ that I can step in and out of ..and keep all my memories and thoughts and ‘self’.
- jelliclesfarm 7y ago
  life extension is not immortality. Do you want to extend the life of your body or be mind-immortal? Two entirely different things. Right now consciousness needs the physical shell to exist. What a Faustian bargain! FWIW, I believe uploading consciousness will happen in the next 20-30 years.
jelliclesfarm 7y ago
Of course. Every day matters. That’s why I want to have more quality in my days. I don’t want to grow old in an aging deteriorating physical shell. Others may feel different and that’s ok. I want life and experiences. I want to be able to control and maintain and manage my shell while still retaining the inner core of me. Because the inner core changes if the body fails us. Women know this and feel this more acutely than men. Because. Biology. It seems like these days men are competing with other men for resources just like women had to compete with men for resources. That’s what an overpopulated with fixed or shrinking resources/land mass will do to you.
jelliclesfarm 7y ago
Life extension is not resurrection. It’s not possible to bring back the dead(Russians and J.B.S.Haldane may disagree)...but to put it in simpler terms..can Entropy be reversed? Second law says no. But if only... The only other alternative is to upload ‘consciousness’, as it were.. entropy can be slowed down. Can’t be reversed or stopped. The arrow of time travels in only one direction.

jelliclesfarm 7y ago

you could start with intermittent fasting. Can’t guarantee immortality but hey! It’s free.