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

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[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

No plans. I die like a real man.

[-] Phunter@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I'm gonna die and like it.

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

Who wants. To live. Forever?

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There's no chance for us

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Who dares. To love. Forever?

[-] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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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[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

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

[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

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

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago

Depends on what kind of forever. If it's truly forever and there's nothing you can do about it, that sounds like hell (imagine being the only thing floating in the universe after the heat death!) but if you can decide after 200, 500, 1000 years you've had enough, it really sounds like a pretty sweet deal.

[-] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I read The Postmortal by Drew Magary.

If no one dies, life is worthless.

And if only I stay alive forever, my wife and my friends are gone, and it’s just me, alone, in this shattered husk of a body.

[-] bestusername@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've seen enough sci-fi to know it's a terrible idea! 🤣

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Meh, if immortality means that a copy of me is being uploaded into a computer, then at least I guess that is technically someone else spending eternity in the Torment Nexus?

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Ever? None. I'm not foolish enough to think I can live forever. Even if I could be upload to a computer, I wouldn't. That sounds more like hell than heaven. No Earthly pleasures.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Quantum Immortality. There is at least one version of me that lives on.

[-] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I'm supposed to have a plan for this?

[-] DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

"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!

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!

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[-] shish_mish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I was not aware it was optional.

[-] zout@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

Like Bob from the Bobiverse.

[-] Thrawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

If life has taught us anything, it’s that you eventually get tired of everything.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I don't. The idea of doing this in perpetuity is painful. I would like to earn my rest.

[-] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

I'd like to learn enough biology to cure aging and cancer. But first the politics need to change, so that's my priority.

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Are you a billionaire? Cause unless you are it's like a child wanting to be Batman when they grow up.

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

Lol is vampirism an option? All option are basically losing your humanity. I'll list some non magical ones:


Genetic enginerring: ok maybe i can improve my form by fixing the DNA deteriorating but how much memory will I be able to retain? Psychosis is going to suck.


Cloning/body swap with memory transfer: Basically all im doing is killing a version of me for a new one to start. Id have to be real chill with that or kill my self right as it starts to have continuity. Play SOMA for more insight. I know my SO could not handle that. Id get used to but not really ideal. Also issue of how much memory can be retained.


Digital upload in quantum computer: Your physical form still dies but this one is my favorite but with a few "*" Because this can easily be condemned a version of yourself to hell. Basically your digital soul needs complete control of your environment and be able to escape to real mechanical or biological body on whim. Being restricted like in Upload will be nightmare. Then you need to be able to resolve having multiple overlapping memory if you have versions out and about doing stuff. Then you can multi task and consolidate memories without versions of you going rouge.


Brain in jar with human meat puppet

This one is similar to others but my original brain didnt die. This will similar to Jimmy in hard core Henry. Same issues with psychological aging but least your original self still exists.

Can't think of any others within realm of "science".

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What, why would I want that, what am I gonna do with forever, more of this shit, no thanks

[-] Pumafred9@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Hopefully I will find a magical lamp, with a wish granting genie inside, in some mysterious bazaar. Then I will use one of my three wishes for my own immortality, after I've wished away anyone who currently has that wish in place. Then use the last one to give the genie his freedom.

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The Genie will turn you into a Genie and you will loathe your immortality as an eternal slave really quickly.

[-] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm betting on the phlebotinum

[-] Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Something something adeptus mechanicus.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago
[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago

Magic notebook.

Everything I write in it becomes true.

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Why on earth would I want that? It‘s a fate I wouldn‘t wish on my worst enemy.

[-] kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Not really not dying ever (entropy will came for everyone some day). But let's say not doing for very, veeeery long time.

I am 35 in reasonable health. I have reasonable chance to live until development, distribution and cheaping of real anti-aging / rejuvenation therapies (that can be 20 years). So my plan is to help spread awareness about such therapies to support their development rather sooner than later. I am thinking about founding an organization to support writing Wikipedia articles in many languages about this topic.

And in case of premature death, I intent to sign up for cryopreservation to buy some time to researchers to develop therapies for whatever would kill me in the meantime.

[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I would have no regrets if I die tomorrow.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

I'm just gonna wing it!

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

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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