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Life Has Several Exits

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Re: Life Has Several Exits

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Post by eep_social »

eep_social wrote: post #37
Macha wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel I'll outlive TikTok and Threads, and that paper in records offices will ultimately turn out to be the most durable of current record formats in 20 generations. I have already outlived many of the websites where I posted information in my teens, and in recent days we've heard about even big sites like Twitter losing some historical data. Not to mention all the users of sites like Orkut, Google+, Friendfeed, Beb…

Four Square, got bought by twitter and I kinda hope they lost all my checkin data at this point.

Too late to edit but this is dead wrong. According to wikipedia they’re still out there chugging along.

Re: Life Has Several Exits

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Post by sixothree »

Aloha wrote: post #48
SoftTalker wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, even famous people in their time are quickly forgotten. How often does anyone under age 60 think about JFK? In another 50 years he’ll be a name among many in a history class, which is more than most people get but that will be the extent of it.

At the risk of being glib, QAnon adherents do. But your point is well taken, how many people have thought of D.R. Griffith, Jimmy Steward or Paul Newman this week?

We spend too much time thinking about them

Re: Life Has Several Exits

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Post by pizza »

tomohelix wrote: post #6

I see it in another way, a bit nihilistic though. Sure, there are plenty of exits. But we will all have to make the final exit at some point. Either now or 10 years or 50 years. We will all have to go. And statistically, the chance that you would be someone who is remembered 100 years from now is kind of slim. And 100 years is, in the grand scheme of things, a blink of an eye. Even 1000 years would be inconsequential…

That wider society sees opinions like - that you are mortal, furthermore, you are only alive for the time being, so make sure not to undervalue the richness of life! - as synonymous with nihilism, has always been a little bit amusing for me. To me, strictly speaking, something like this is like the exact opposite of nihilism, possibly even the most non-nihilistic statement I can think of :) [0]

[0] I mean, when I consider the whole possible space of questions I could ask about life, and the answers that I could arrive at just sitting in my armchair, I think it's quite a rare thing to be comforted in knowing I can easily know in my bones that the answer is correct: that the time to start living is TODAY!

Re: Life Has Several Exits

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Post by c22 »

Aloha wrote: post #48
SoftTalker wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, even famous people in their time are quickly forgotten. How often does anyone under age 60 think about JFK? In another 50 years he’ll be a name among many in a history class, which is more than most people get but that will be the extent of it.

At the risk of being glib, QAnon adherents do. But your point is well taken, how many people have thought of D.R. Griffith, Jimmy Steward or Paul Newman this week?

I see Paul Newman's face on my salad dressing every time I open my fridge, but I guess I don't really think about it.

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Post by Woansdei »

ternaus wrote: post #50
tomohelix wrote: post #6

I see it in another way, a bit nihilistic though. Sure, there are plenty of exits. But we will all have to make the final exit at some point. Either now or 10 years or 50 years. We will all have to go. And statistically, the chance that you would be someone who is remembered 100 years from now is kind of slim. And 100 years is, in the grand scheme of things, a blink of an eye. Even 1000 years would be inconsequential…

About being forgotten: There is a good fiction book in Russian on the topic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%B... Plot: After you die, you get to another place, call it heaven. Every time someone who is alive remembers about you, you get a coin. Coins are used in this afterlife community for food, entertainment, labor, etc You cannot steal them, although can give as gift to another afterlif…

how did they explain the caveman surviving the centuries between first death and the body being found?

Re: Life Has Several Exits

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Post by Narciss »

ternaus wrote: post #50
tomohelix wrote: post #6

I see it in another way, a bit nihilistic though. Sure, there are plenty of exits. But we will all have to make the final exit at some point. Either now or 10 years or 50 years. We will all have to go. And statistically, the chance that you would be someone who is remembered 100 years from now is kind of slim. And 100 years is, in the grand scheme of things, a blink of an eye. Even 1000 years would be inconsequential…

About being forgotten: There is a good fiction book in Russian on the topic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%B... Plot: After you die, you get to another place, call it heaven. Every time someone who is alive remembers about you, you get a coin. Coins are used in this afterlife community for food, entertainment, labor, etc You cannot steal them, although can give as gift to another afterlif…

Sounds like an interesting book, this one. Thanks for sharing

Re: Life Has Several Exits

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Post by ransackdev »

8jef wrote: post #39
WalterBright wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're all going to fall into a black hole anyway.

The death of a living entity is a black hole in itself: matter just get rearranged. Assuming black holes are just galactic sized blenders that leak matter out, eventually.

Another thing that is an unchanging constant, but also changes.

“Black holes have so much gravity that nothing can escape it, not even light”

“Except for all those particles there, and there, it’s called hawking radiation, and eventually the black hole which nothing can escape, not even light, will evaporate from everything escaping it”

Makes perfect logical sense

Re: Life Has Several Exits

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Post by ransackdev »

fnord77 wrote: post #45

So, 1,000 years from now, who will still be a household name from our era?

Does it matter? It’ll all be lies to spin something anyway, and that’s if humanity exists, or the same governments do. We won’t hear the lies about George Washington anymore if the country is gone.

Also there’s no way of knowing everything wasn’t created last thursday, or that you’re all figments of my imagination, or we are all in a simulation, or dead, or aliens.

Being remembered after I’m dead doesn’t matter to me. Being thought of while I’m alive does. The only legacy I care about is that my children felt loved by me and that they have good memories with me. I want to die knowing that I succeeded in the one area of my life that actually mattered. Status doesn’t. Money doesn’t. Career doesn’t. I have none of those. My impact on them is what matters

Re: Life Has Several Exits

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Post by ransackdev »

deathanatos wrote: post #30

> Upon your exit, your contributions, actions, decisions, opinions and presence most likely will have affected the trajectories of the people and the world around you, in obvious and less obvious ways. Oh I wouldn't be too sure. The company that had acquired us some years earlier for millions of dollars then proceeded to can our entire division, sunset our product, and laid, more or less, everyone involved off. I can…

Most businesses fail. Most acquisitions get shitcanned, because statistically most of them are acquisitions of failing businesses. Then there’s the possibility they bought that company and killed it to stomp out completion and suppress the IP. Or it could have been because they needed to get funds moved, and that company was used to empty the bank, so they could ask VCs for another round, with the added bonus of that purchase raising the valuation. I’m sure there are a million other reasons but I know that every company eventually starts to gobble up other companies so it’s some “tie it up”, “use up the surplus”, or “dodge taxes” reason
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