We Are Especially Unfortunate to Die, When Our Descendants Could Be Immortal
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#2Immortal as in reproductively, intellectually and physically functional, or sitting in a nursing home at huge social expense for 50 years immortal?
I think people are more interested in having working joints, no wrinkles, youthful energy and libido, and a full head of hair for an additional 20 years than immortality.
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#3You have to completely solve the population explosion issue before anyone who is likely to write about it, will be immortal.
Since that issue seems likely to exist for the next 50 years, I doubt anyone alive today will be immortal, or if they are it'll be maybe limited to zuckerberg - I can't think of anyone else young enough and rich enough to benefit from it.
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#4The idea of immortality is absurd. At some point you have to toss out the old model and replace it with a new one.
Way longer lifespans than we expect today we might just see. Immortality means forever though.
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#5If only we had the technology. Then we could be sad forever.
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#6You have to completely solve the population explosion issue before anyone who is likely to write about it, will be immortal. Since that issue seems likely to exist for the next 50 years, I doubt anyone alive today will be immortal, or if they are it'll be maybe limited to zuckerberg - I can't think of anyone else young enough and rich enough to benefit from it.
That’s because you are limited by your imagination. Zuckerberg is 35. Everyone between 0-35 have the same chance as him (age is the main factor, wealth can be accumulated anytime).
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#7If only we had the technology. Then we could be sad forever .
This. Immortality = hell.
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#8In the biological sense, a population of creatures is immortal if "the rate of mortality from senescence is stable or decreasing with age".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
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#9I am baffled as to why people are saying that we are about to allow people to become immortal when we have zero evidence that we cam extend the natural lifespan at all. Today, there is not a single medicine that people can take because it extends lifespans.
I am obviously not counting regular medicine like vaccines and antibiotics etc, they increase our likelihood of reaching the natural lifespan limit but do not extend the limit.
When they can show that some treatment extends the limit from around 120 to something like 150, then come back and talk about immortality. Although even then, there is a big difference between immortality and adding a mere 30 years! Oh, and those extra years had better not be as a bed bound senile in a nursing home. They can better be quality years, otherwise there is no point in bothering.
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#10 SciFi author Ian Banks 's culture series explores a future civilization where people is potentially immortal but in that society it happens that lots of people lives 150 / 200 or 300 years an then they choose self termination.