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  • Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

    People in media always make immortality sound awful. It really wouldnt be that bad, they always make little twists like you can’t ever die or nobody else can be immortal with you, all because its hard to make giving people more time to live seem awful without those twists. I find it fairly annoying.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    I was more excited about life at 8 than at after 20, so for me it’s def reversed.

    Tho I do need to know if an elixir causes immortality, I do not want to drink it by accident.

  • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Imagine still being alive to witness the slow, agonizing death of the universe, when all matter and energy are evenly spread across an incomprehensible vastness, and nothing will or can ever happen again. The next billion years would be fairly interesting until the sun expands and swallows the Earth…or, at least, dries up its oceans. Hopefully, you’ve found a way out and onto another planet for another billion or so years. But after about 170 quattuorvigintillion years of cold, dark, nothingness, you’ll probably get pretty bored of it all.

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      2 years ago

      I don’t think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever. Most people just want more time.

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      Making a lot of assumptions here that our models are accurate enough to correctly predict the end of the universe - whether it’s a big crunch, big rip, heat death, some clumsy git dropping the marble so it shatters, or something else entirely. I would take eternal life+youth so I could find out.

      Once I know everything, then I might get bored.

      • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        So far, I think the general consensus is heat death. Being an optimist, my hope is for the big crunch. If that one’s true, what’d be infinitely hilarious is if it always repeats in exactly the same way.

        If that’s the case, then I guess all of us do truly live forever. We just microdose the same exact snippet of eternity.

        So much of what exists is spheres and circles. Who’s to say time doesn’t also run in a circle?

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 years ago

      I was promised eternal life, not consciousness. That’s cryosleep conditions right there.

  • Dejected Warp Core@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Protip: fill each day with novelty.

    When we’re young, everything is new. Our minds are on constant overdrive taking everything in, followed by more each and every day. As adults, we’re simply not challenged at the same clip and wind up throwing out all these dull and repeated experiences - so fix it! Keep reading, keep learning, keep exploring, and never stop asking questions.

  • Aksamit@slrpnk.net
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    2 years ago

    Idk, have you looked around lately? Not sure I could put up with much more of this tbh.

    Also how immortal are we talking here? Like several thousand years of vamping, then kaput by unnatural causes/moidled? Or like, orbiting the last dying star for warmth as the universe goes out, immortal?

  • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    oof imagine being immortal, but you keep on aging and getting diseases and stuff but they just can’t kill you

  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    If you ever have kids and probably just as you age it only gets worse. I’m like, this little kid is 5 already? And it hits hard.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 years ago

      My best friend just had a kid. I imagine I’m gonna wake up tomorrow and he’s gonna be graduating high school. When did time start passing so fucking fast?

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        That point in time was when the number of new things in life diminished to sporadic events. New things stand out and feel longer, repetition and same ol blurs and becomes irrelevant to memory and thusly disappears making time seem to “fly by”

        If you do a ton of new things you’ve never experienced there’s still the possibility of having an “endless summer” such as the ones people often fondly recall from their youth.

        The problem often is that when young, basically everything is new, getting a bike and being able go visit a gas station is a new thing, but as an adult, visiting a gas station, even if a new one, has enough same ol to become irrelevant’d by the brain.

  • greedytacothief@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    So like, what problem does immortality solve? Because when I think about, it’s just giving me more time to deal with more problems. Like how good of a person I am doesn’t change if I live longer.

    How would being immortal make your life better? because I’m just not sure I get it.