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A few counter thoughts: * I love peppermint ice cream, but I'd probably get tired of it after a million gallons. * I'm looking forward to retirement in a few

A few counter thoughts: * I love peppermint ice cream, but I'd probably get tired of it after a million gallons. * I'm looking forward to retirement in a few years. I don't desire to work for 5000 years. * A thing in infinite supply has little value. Why would another year of life be any different? * Marriages would become limited term contracts, and partners would change every few decades * Unless society figures out a way to address poverty, do you think the billions of impoverished people will want to live forever? * Having children will be limited to a chosen few, probably the wealthiest. * Suicide will have to become socially acceptable when people become Honestly, I think even if the technology is developed, it will be available only to the rich and powerful. They would be willing to prevent the technology from becoming widely available because it would upset the current order and they dare not risk losing their position of privilege.

grishka 5y ago
It's nice to have an option to not age and die, anyway. We have no idea what the world will be like in a decade, let alone 5000 years. > I love peppermint ice cream, but I'd probably get tired of it after a million gallons. So you'll take a break. Then you'll crave some more. The problem with suicide is that one can't change their mind, because there's no mind any more. > A thing in infinite supply has little value. Why would another year of life be any different? We have effectively unlimited supply of water, yet it has a lot of value to us because a person can't survive without water.
oblio 5y ago
* People don't like changing their minds once they find something that works so we'll have huge chunks of people with moral compasses from hundreds of years ago
angelbar 5y ago
* I love peppermint ice cream, but I'd probably get tired of it after a million gallons. - Who will eat the same food all the time? * I'm looking forward to retirement in a few years. I don't desire to work for 5000 years. -You will encounter a means to not need to "work" * A thing in infinite supply has little value. Why would another year of life be any different? - Statistically you will die of a horrible accident earlier... don worry * Marriages would become limited term contracts, and partners would change every few decades - YES ! * Unless society figures out a way to address poverty, do you think the billions of impoverished people will want to live forever? - with free information everywhere... Who will not get a chance to get a great education on his first 200 years? * Having children will be limited to a chosen few, probably the wealthiest. - ??????? * Suicide will have to become socially acceptable when people become - Again... - Statistically you will die of a horrible accident earlier... don worry

grishka 5y ago

It's nice to have an option to not age and die, anyway. We have no idea what the world will be like in a decade, let alone 5000 years. > I love peppermint ice cream, but I'd probably get tired of it after a million gallons. So you'll take a break. Then you'll crave some more. The problem with suicide is that one can't change their mind, because there's no mind any more. > A thing in infinite supply has little value. Why would another year of life be any different? We have effectively unlimited supply of water, yet it has a lot of value to us because a person can't survive without water.

oblio 5y ago

* People don't like changing their minds once they find something that works so we'll have huge chunks of people with moral compasses from hundreds of years ago

angelbar 5y ago

* I love peppermint ice cream, but I'd probably get tired of it after a million gallons. - Who will eat the same food all the time? * I'm looking forward to retirement in a few years. I don't desire to work for 5000 years. -You will encounter a means to not need to "work" * A thing in infinite supply has little value. Why would another year of life be any different? - Statistically you will die of a horrible accident earlier... don worry * Marriages would become limited term contracts, and partners would change every few decades - YES ! * Unless society figures out a way to address poverty, do you think the billions of impoverished people will want to live forever? - with free information everywhere... Who will not get a chance to get a great education on his first 200 years? * Having children will be limited to a chosen few, probably the wealthiest. - ??????? * Suicide will have to become socially acceptable when people become - Again... - Statistically you will die of a horrible accident earlier... don worry