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Why not?
by lab14 3y ago
Why not?
- DoctorOW 3y agoThere's a finite amount of resources, experiences, and overall joy that life offers. Infinite life loses its appeal after those returns diminish.
- rnk 3y agoI think we have enough resources to go around now. We just don't allocate them fairly. People and companies like making money and resist change, resist other technologies and sabotage them politically, as an example.
- NL807 3y agoWhat if you can reset some of your experiences?
- ux-app 3y agopeople generally get tired of life because their body is failing. I'm sure you could find exceptions where people were just ... bored ... and ready to die, but this would be the extreme minority. >There's a finite amount of ... experiences I very much doubt that is the case in anything but the most pedantic, philosophical sense.
- swatcoder 3y agoBecause accepting the inevitability of death is a transformative insight that helps you live more richly, with less fear, and with a greater sense of contentment? Putting off your opportunity to make that insight by fantasizing about immortality and indefinite life extension mostly just makes your life more difficult and stressful.
- happytoexplain 3y agoThis is written so scarily, honestly. It sounds like you're trying to convince somebody to die who doesn't need to or want to. The word "fantasize" especially is bizarre - we're discussing a premise (arbitrarily extended life), and you're using a word that escapes the premise (a synonym for "it's not real").
- quesera 3y agoArbitrarily extended life is a fantasy, today. As a premise, it might not be psychologically good for people if it was real. There is no warmth without cold; there is no life without death. But I would sign up to be a brain in a vat as long as I could read and write. Someday, Fyodor, someday.
- DennisP 3y agoThat makes sense as long as we're aging normally, but suppose indefinite life extension actually becomes a reality? Personally I'd be interested in seeing what sort of insights I could come up with over the course of a couple thousand years.