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>until boredom overtakes them. What's wrong with being bored? I only live 100 years and I spend the majority of my life being bored. I want to be immortal so I

>until boredom overtakes them. What's wrong with being bored? I only live 100 years and I spend the majority of my life being bored. I want to be immortal so I can spend eternity being bored. The people who claim they don't want to be immortal because they don't want to be bored don't get human psychology... Humans generally prefer being bored over being dead, period.

rhn_mk1 6y ago
I think the value of boredom is that it nudges to do something. Introspection, creativity are the best examples that come to mind. Being bored because of having literally nothing interesting left to do sounds depressive. I don't know what the novel's idea was, but this is what I would tell if I was going to write such a novel (alas, I'm not bored enough to do that).
Gunax 6y ago
I don't think anyone really knows what or how people's thoughts would change if they were to live to a thousand years (or a million, whatever). Given that, I think there are probably different feelings which we all call bored. There is bored in the immediate term, bored in general, and ennui.
- leafboi 6y ago
  That notion goes both ways. How do you know we'll be so bored that we'd give up immortality? Extrapolating from information we already have I'd say we get plenty bored with about 80 years of life... I think we'd do well with another million.
ardy42 6y ago
> Humans generally prefer being bored over being dead, period. Solitary confinement sounds like the ultimate form of boredom. If you were locked in it with no hope of release, there's a good chance you'd eventually start looking for ways to commit suicide.
- leafboi 6y ago
  We have examples of this in modern society. Actual prisons where people can spend an entire lifetime. Most people don't commit suicide.
  - ardy42 6y ago
    > We have examples of this in modern society. Actual prisons where people can spend an entire lifetime. > Most people don't commit suicide. Eh, not so much. Most solitary confinement in modern prisons is temporary and prisons have polices to prevent suicide (that are not perfect, but are still effective to some degree). Solitary confinement, even as it exists, definitely increases suicidal ideation.
    - leafboi 6y ago
      >increases suicidal ideation. Like suicide prevention ideation does not mean all people in solitary confinement want to commit suicide. I venture to argue that most people won't.

rhn_mk1 6y ago

I think the value of boredom is that it nudges to do something. Introspection, creativity are the best examples that come to mind. Being bored because of having literally nothing interesting left to do sounds depressive. I don't know what the novel's idea was, but this is what I would tell if I was going to write such a novel (alas, I'm not bored enough to do that).

Gunax 6y ago

I don't think anyone really knows what or how people's thoughts would change if they were to live to a thousand years (or a million, whatever). Given that, I think there are probably different feelings which we all call bored. There is bored in the immediate term, bored in general, and ennui.

leafboi 6y ago
That notion goes both ways. How do you know we'll be so bored that we'd give up immortality? Extrapolating from information we already have I'd say we get plenty bored with about 80 years of life... I think we'd do well with another million.

ardy42 6y ago

> Humans generally prefer being bored over being dead, period. Solitary confinement sounds like the ultimate form of boredom. If you were locked in it with no hope of release, there's a good chance you'd eventually start looking for ways to commit suicide.

leafboi 6y ago
We have examples of this in modern society. Actual prisons where people can spend an entire lifetime. Most people don't commit suicide.
- ardy42 6y ago
  > We have examples of this in modern society. Actual prisons where people can spend an entire lifetime. > Most people don't commit suicide. Eh, not so much. Most solitary confinement in modern prisons is temporary and prisons have polices to prevent suicide (that are not perfect, but are still effective to some degree). Solitary confinement, even as it exists, definitely increases suicidal ideation.
  - leafboi 6y ago
    >increases suicidal ideation. Like suicide prevention ideation does not mean all people in solitary confinement want to commit suicide. I venture to argue that most people won't.