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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
by 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 agoThe 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 agoChildren 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 agoI 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 agolife 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.