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> If you plan on having biological kids I do not, having a child is kind of a worst nightmare for me. And I'm male. Oh and by the way. Many, many people consi
by grishka 5y ago
> If you plan on having biological kids
I do not, having a child is kind of a worst nightmare for me. And I'm male.
Oh and by the way. Many, many people consider kids a form of immortality. The "someone to leave in this world after I'm gone". The whole idea of "leaving something behind after yourself" is so crazy to me, and spending your best years (again, pay attention to how much aging influences everything including language) on raising a child to leave behind is just... So, yes, decisions whether to have kids at all are also not insubstantially driven by the impending death.
- nradov 5y agoThe idea of worrying about individual consciousness and memories is so crazy to me. What matters is preserving our genes and culture. I have children so I am effectively immortal.
- grishka 5y agoSo, exactly the opposite from me. Genes especially don't matter at all in an age when we have technologies like CRISPR to perform arbitrary edits on them. Different cultures come and go all the time throughout humanity's history. My own consciousness and personality though? As far as I'm concerned, to me, that's literally the most valuable thing in this universe.
- nradov 5y agoCRISPR applications are very limited so far. It's not a magic technology, and it certainly isn't useful for extending average lifespans.
- grishka 5y agoIt isn't useful for life extension for sure, but it does make any individual genome much less sacred. And then we have technologies to synthesize arbitrary sequences of DNA. They can't create anything as long as an entire chromosome worth of DNA, but there's no reason why they won't be able to sometime in the future.