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So your assumption is life is pointless so kill yourself? Are you going to be the first person to test this laughably pessimistic hypothesis? I'm a thousand ti
by electromagnetic 18y ago
So your assumption is life is pointless so kill yourself? Are you going to be the first person to test this laughably pessimistic hypothesis?
I'm a thousand times smarter than my pet rabbit, I've yet to even try suicide because its patently moronic. If human beings were a thousand times smarter than they are today then there's a high probability that less people will commit suicide as they'll finally be smart enough to realize it's not a solution to a problem.
Human culture is so diverse that even in 1000 years you'd barely manage 5 years in each country on the planet. I mean just look at how different human culture is today than it was 1000 years ago. We're talking the difference between Monarchy and Democracy in the entire western world.
There's no law of conservation of information, there's no finite limit to the amount of data in the universe. It's not like once a thousand books have been written you're stuck with them, there's going to be more and more unique information as the universe ages. A being with an infinite lifespan is going to have a lot of time experiencing all there is for humanity to offer before it even has to create something itself, even then it could likely explore the universe to find another culture to experience. I'm sure if you're going to live forever and spent 10,000 years experiencing humanity, it might not seem too long to take a quick 100 year jaunt to another star system to spend 10,000 years experiencing alienity.
- biohacker42 18y agoI wouldn't just kill myself for several reasons, but the two top ones are: First, I am afraid of death. Second, I am mortal and my death is a certainty, there is quite literally no point in rushing it. So there you have one emotional instinctive reason and one logical one. And I have to agree with you suicide is moronic. And perhaps 1000 years is not nearly enough time to become bored. But how about 1000 000 years? More? My question was about the veeeeeeeeeeeeery long run, do you think you'll find life interesting for ever?
- khafra 18y agoFor that one, look away from The Last Question, and toward Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut. I think, as long as we're talking about finite time, life would have to be pretty incredibly bad to make me want to end it.
- alex_c 18y agoThe problem with death is that it's irreversible. If I'm bored today, I might still find something interesting tomorrow. If I'm dead today, I'll still be dead tomorrow.
- biohacker42 18y agoHow likely are you to find something new and interesting if you are a universe sized super intellect?
- sgibat 18y agoWhen you finally understand everything there is to know, if that is possible, then I think you will be so far gone from human that you will be impervious to boredom.
- steveplace 18y agoI'll think of something.
- alex_c 18y agoMore likely than I am to stop being dead.
- donw 18y ago"...I've yet to even try suicide because its patently moronic..." Alan Turing committed suicide, mostly thanks to the pressures put upon him by British society at the time... because he was gay. I sincerely doubt that Turing was a moron. There are many factors that lie well outside the realm of intelligence, that have a profound effect on whether or not people one day decide that they can no longer go on with their lives. Boredom may very well be a motivating factor, especially for someone who can live as arbitrarily long as they wish.
- theoneill 18y agoI believe there is some debate about whether that was actually suicide.