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If you consider aging and death in old age as a negative, perhaps you should reconsider your philosophy, instead of chasing immortality.
If you consider aging and death in old age as a _positive_, well, go for it.
I think it has been a good thing so far. Considering who tends to get access to new things first the ones that would still be living would most likely not be the nicest men and women of all times but rather the greediest.
Would it be great if you could select ranges of blocks and assign a color to each range according to how you felt those days, i.e. green: good, yellow: not that good, red: not good. I did something like this in past, with colors, and contrarily to the expectations it actually cheered me up to see all those green blocks making up a huge chunk of life. Also, it reminded me of http://moriclock.com
hehe just came here to post my project - moriclock! Cool to know people still remember it. I like your idea of coloring of the blocks. I had big plans of turning it into some sort of journaling application.
Every time an existential post is made here, I have to remind people: As technologists you guys should have a little more confidence/faith/whatever in the progress we're making every passing day, than is evident from the tone of most of the comments here. Smart-phones, social media, startups, IPOs, these are huge blind spots of technology. It makes you think that's all there is to it. Technology is much more than tha…
If you consider aging and death in old age as a negative, perhaps you should reconsider your philosophy, instead of chasing immortality.
Why should I reconsider? What about your view do you feel is better than living healthier for longer?
The way I see it, if you take advantage of doctors at all you are already competing against your own ideals.
We have made huge leaps in health such that even if we die at 80, our lives will have been much more healthy and active up until that point.
If I can be healthy and active until 80 and then die at 100, then I will do that. It isn't immortality they are after, it's just more high quality life.
There is nothing graceful, or more respectable, about succumbing to death because it is the social norm at a certain age. I will cling on to life until I can no longer.
if you feel pretty much the same every day, you're either a psychopath, or you're not doing anything worth caring about.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11468051 and marked it off-topic.
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I never understood the big deal about death bed. I don't care much about what I think when my i am old and senile.
I'm sure I'll have huge regrets no matter what I do.
Way too optimistic. Here, all rectangles look similar, but actually, quality of life in bottom rectangles deteriorates rapidly, medical expenses are skyrocketing, and basically everything sucks.
Medical expenses only accelerate if you attempt to fend off death. There is no need for this with assisted suicide laws.
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If you consider aging and death in old age as a negative, perhaps you should reconsider your philosophy, instead of chasing immortality.
You have not offered any argument, you have simply said "if you don't see it my way, you should reconsider". Why should I reconsider? What about your view do you feel is better than living healthier for longer? The way I see it, if you take advantage of doctors at all you are already competing against your own ideals. We have made huge leaps in health such that even if we die at 80, our lives will have been much more…
Plus ideas can change faster as culture changes.
That said, there may be ways to overcome this and I still think it's worth working on not having to die. Though trying to determine purpose behind existential questions becomes difficult pretty quickly.
Even if we figure it out since sex and having children is core to biological life and the basis for the replicating genetic code that eventually lead to us - not sure how we'd solve that. Guess we also better get working on space colonization for our start trek future.
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If you consider aging and death in old age as a negative, perhaps you should reconsider your philosophy, instead of chasing immortality.
You have not offered any argument, you have simply said "if you don't see it my way, you should reconsider". Why should I reconsider? What about your view do you feel is better than living healthier for longer? The way I see it, if you take advantage of doctors at all you are already competing against your own ideals. We have made huge leaps in health such that even if we die at 80, our lives will have been much more…
Either way, life philosophies that would reflect such a claim don't have comment length "arguments" that would be convincing to anyone on any level. Some things do not lend themselves to logic. Some things require more than a few paragraphs and an argument. And sometimes, those things, are best served by parsimony, rather than loquacious debate.