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I think suicides would go way up. People would get bored with life after a couple hundred years. If everyone lived that long life would stagnate into a boring g
by coldcode 6y ago
I think suicides would go way up. People would get bored with life after a couple hundred years. If everyone lived that long life would stagnate into a boring grayness.
- chrisco255 6y agoHow do you know they would? Greenland sharks live for 300-500 years and they seem to enjoy eating fish well into old age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark
- jacquesm 6y agoThey're not sentient at our level. That makes it doable, if you are aware of being bored it is a totally different thing than if you are not.
- chrisco255 6y agoThankfully, I'll never get bored of making cheeky comments. ;-)
- xwdv 6y agoNo need to kill yourself, we would just come up with some way to delete sentience from our minds or something, so we become simpler, happier machines.