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genetic engineering? ai singularity perhaps? How do you intend to live forever?

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[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No plans. I die like a real man.

[–] Phunter@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago

I'm gonna die and like it.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Who wants. To live. Forever?

Who dares. To love. Forever?

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

There's no chance for us

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't intend to live forever, that sounds rough as hell.

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck forever, just let my upcoming prostate biopsy be negative. I'm retiring and I have shit to do that doesn't involve sitting in front of the TV wearing a diaper.

[–] yyyesss@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

good luck, friend. this internet stranger will be keeping you in mind. nobody deserves some of the shit life dishes out, i sincerely hope this goes well for you.

[–] Yankee_Self_Loader@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago
[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

my background in biochemistry makes me think it's almost guaranteed to be impossible, so i don't worry about it.

however, in hypothetical case it isn't, i'd argue that it would be proper to destroy this technology in all cases along with inventors, because it would be horridly expensive initially, and first people to get it would be people like peter thiel and larry ellison. there was a recording where putin and xi admitted that they are also interested. then what you'll get would be class of immortal oligarchs. planck once said, progress in physics happens one funeral at a time, it's really more general than just physics, and you can say goodbye to any progress from that point on

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[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't? It sounds like a horrible curse. Part of the reason life is meaningful is that we're only temporary witnesses of the universe.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I've never gotten this attitude. Why does only having temporary existence make life meaningful?

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Because, for instance, choices carry more weight when you can make finitely many of them.

Knowing you only have a limited time forces you to try and realise what's meaningful to you and what's not, and to actual act upon it.

If you live forever, have time to learn everything, experience everything... Then do you really? At which point does the amount of different experiences you run after stop painting a coherent picture of one's life, values and identity, and start looking like noise in a random checklist? Finding meaning in an eternal life would be a sisyphean task.

And also, ageing and dying are part of the human experience. Accepting your own mortality, your own limit in time, when you subjectively feel like you've always existed, is a meaningful journey. Becoming immortal robs you of that chance.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

Mortality is a state of mind!

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[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago

Why the hell would I want to live forever, I don't want to be alive now

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Only insane billionaires plan for that.

I'm not looking to live forever. Just another 40 to 50 years as long as I'm healthy. Only plan for that is to eat somewhat healthy and get a couple hours of cardio and strength training in a few times a week. Nothing obsurd just enough to maintain strength as I age and get the heart pumping.

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[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm supposed to have a plan for this?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Obviously. Immortality is hard without a solid plan.

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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I only plan for things that are possible so no plan to live forever.

Having said that, scientists are working on a cure for aging. Even if they sort that out before I die, the treatments will be too expensive for me.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I have "kidnapped" a small child and am brainwashing them to think like me.

they will be me, essentially.

one day they will do the same, and "I" will live on for eternity.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

I have no intention of trying to be immortal, just try to live a long time through healthy eating and exercise

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

I honestly can't think of anything less appealing than dealing with other people forever.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago

I'm just gonna wing it!

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If we're speaking how I'd like to do that if possible, just put my brain into a robot body. Or just upload my whole mind into a robot.

If we're talking realistically:

collapsed inline mediaguess I'll die

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

I have no plans to live forever as a separate being, but I am hoping to attain nirvana so that I end the ending the suffering involved with death.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I plan to die like a normal human being.

Have no idea why people want to cling to this life for super long. It really isnt that amazing.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 6 points 2 days ago

The fun part of quasi-immortality is that you can make your life pretty amazing!

Money isn't really that much of a problem if you don't have the certainty of being old and unable to provide for yourself.

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

You know I'm born to lose, and gambling's for fools, But that's the way I like it baby, I don't wanna live forever

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

When my time comes I will rid myself of the delusion that I was anything other than a piece of the universe experiencing itself.

Maybe something fundamental of me will return. If the Buddhists are right I have a suspicion of what I am learning in this life and what I will need to learn in the next. But otherwise I will simply no longer distinct at further points in time, just as there are prior ones I was not distinct at.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

The name on my Park Run card is "Do Not Resuscitate"

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago
[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Just fly a rocket into a stable orbit near a black hole and wait until the time dilation causes 1000s of years to pass on earth, then go back and hope someone has figured it out.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

No plan
Hope someone else figures it out before I'm too old to make it worthwhile

[–] LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

And I'm here wanting to end it the moment my organs start failing

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

I expext to live forever, seriously. Just not in this body and not on this planet.

Completely ignoring my own mortality, followed by crushing deathbed betrayal and disappointment

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Y'all are crazy, I'd take immorality in a heartbeat if anyone was offering.

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Consider what happens when you are the last living creature on this planet. Eventually, the sun expands into a red giant and now you give to live in constant agony inside the sun. Of course, there is space travel so perhaps you can avoid an extreme sunburn.

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[–] nagaram@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago

I don't even think I wanna wake up tomorrow.

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Look at the world around you, do you really want to live forever? The more time passes the more death seams like retirement from life.

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like Bob from the Bobiverse.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Oh, god, I don't. Not even close.

[–] DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Forever" is a long time. Only this universe still has a few billion years to go. Washing my dishes every day for all this time would be boring. No thanks!

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[–] Thrawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Shrug. The closest that real biology allows. I already have children so at least some sense a part of me will live on for at least the duration of their lives.

Past that I'm with most people on here that immortality sounds horrific. Now I can get behind extended life span especially if medicine and society provide for being actually healthy and able to enjoy it. Just not forever.

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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 4 points 2 days ago

Magic notebook.

Everything I write in it becomes true.

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