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I think we're unlucky. I think the next generation or a couple generations down the line they will figure out biological immortality. If you're immortal the sum
by corethree 3y ago
I think we're unlucky. I think the next generation or a couple generations down the line they will figure out biological immortality. If you're immortal the sum total of things you will see in your lifetime will dwarf the experience you're having now.
- huytersd 3y agoI agree. I feel like we missed immortality by a few decades to a hundred years at the most. We might be some of the last generations that actually have to die.
- ben_w 3y agoI don't know which generation you're in, but I do remember people saying in the late 00s, that the first person to live to 200 had likely already been born, we just didn't know how old they were.
- kaba0 3y agoAnd what will we do with immortality? Our organs will continue to deteriorate, especially the brain. Many older people are already quite gullible and easy to feed propaganda to, being a favored target to politicians, let alone someone 90+.
- ben_w 3y agoIf you think that's a necessary part of immortality, you're looking at fiction inspired by the ancient Greek tale of Eos and Tithonus and not, for example, SENS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_engineered_negligible_senescence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_engineered_negl...
- corethree 3y agoThat deterioration is what eventually causes death so immortality involves removing said deterioration. I'm short Immortality is achieved by stopping aging.