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A lot of smart people are say my generation and perhaps my parents generation will have the option to have practical immortality. Supposing one does choose to live "forever". How would one go about planning for that?

BBliberty 4 July 27
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depends on the kind of eternal life biological would mean less and less space more shortages more conflict etc none of which appeals to me downloading your consciousness to some mainframe and living digitally not sure that would work the amount of resources needed decreases but all the old human problems still exist except now you can't punch idiots

weeman Level 7 July 30, 2018
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This would be a Px for sucide

Marine Level 8 July 29, 2018
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Faint

Marine Level 8 July 28, 2018
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Immortality would be a nightmare, unending, unrelenting, eternal misery, sorrow and boredom

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I think that is painting the picture with the "way I want it" and not "the way it is"

immortality is a ways off still, medicine is advancing slowly. most predictors compare technological progress, not medical as the metric to predict, which is wrong.

the real question should be, how do we prevent a special rich class benefit....

also a lot or rules will have to change as well..

arnies Level 7 July 28, 2018
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The only reason I would want to live forever is if I could be regenerated and be as space explorer.

My opinion is that it would be bad for human beings to be immortal. What would be the point of doing anything if you know you always have tomorrow.? We have accomplished so much simply because we have so little time to do anything.

This guy on YouTube goes into great detail on this question. it's a good listen. All his other videos are well thought out and detailed as well.

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I like this small talk about Einstein that uses his thinking on energy being eternal: [tm.org]

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