Poll: Would you accept immortality?
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Yeah, the positives far out way the negatives. However, I don't have that many attachments in this world. Let's say I had a lover that I planned to spend the rest of my life with. I'm not sure if I would take the immortality gummi if I knew I wouldn't be able to spend that time with him. But, for now, immortality please!
I would absolutely take it. For one, I am amazed at the scientific advancements we're making, being able to see where we are in a thousand years is a chance I couldn't pass up. Plus, fuck yeah immortality.
As for the drawbacks.
As for the drawbacks.
1. Evolution will turn you into a freak: Over thousands of years something better, stronger, faster, and smarter will likely develop from humans, leaving you left behind as a freak.
People may become better, stronger or potentially smarter, but I'll be fucking immortal, and will have millenia of knowledge.
2. Nobody can ever find out: If you've got immortality then everybody will want it. Governments, CEO's, the masses, you name it. And they don't care what they have to do to get it.
If I go public people would notice my absence, and if kidnapping still happened I'd walk around with a bomb strapped to my chest.
3. You're still getting older (mentally): You will be forced to remember everything that happens over the course of infinity, which your brain just isn't built to do.
No, you won't be forced to remember everything. Can you remember everything that happened to you now?
4. Time speeds up till you're insane: As time flies by, your different friends, loves, and lives slowly fade from your memory, making 50 years seem relatively equal to a saturday night.
I doubt it. Pure speculation, and I really don't think my view of time would be warped so severely. It doesn't even make sense.
5. You will eventually get trapped there forever: Eventually, you will get trapped in a pile of rubble, or the rest of the human race gets wiped out, and you till be trapped there forever.
So I'll be careful. Emergency button, plus that bomb would help for the rubble scenario. As for humanity disappearing, I find that incredibly unlikely. Yeah, if it happens it is the one thing I agree would really suck, but I really really doubt it would happen.
People may become better, stronger or potentially smarter, but I'll be fucking immortal, and will have millenia of knowledge.
2. Nobody can ever find out: If you've got immortality then everybody will want it. Governments, CEO's, the masses, you name it. And they don't care what they have to do to get it.
If I go public people would notice my absence, and if kidnapping still happened I'd walk around with a bomb strapped to my chest.
3. You're still getting older (mentally): You will be forced to remember everything that happens over the course of infinity, which your brain just isn't built to do.
No, you won't be forced to remember everything. Can you remember everything that happened to you now?
4. Time speeds up till you're insane: As time flies by, your different friends, loves, and lives slowly fade from your memory, making 50 years seem relatively equal to a saturday night.
I doubt it. Pure speculation, and I really don't think my view of time would be warped so severely. It doesn't even make sense.
5. You will eventually get trapped there forever: Eventually, you will get trapped in a pile of rubble, or the rest of the human race gets wiped out, and you till be trapped there forever.
So I'll be careful. Emergency button, plus that bomb would help for the rubble scenario. As for humanity disappearing, I find that incredibly unlikely. Yeah, if it happens it is the one thing I agree would really suck, but I really really doubt it would happen.
yes, I'd eat it! without a doubt! there's always going to be something new to see and do. and all the bad stuff, pfff I'll outlive it.
1.With all this time I would have, I would create robot suit to keep me better then everyone (nanosuit or something)
2. That's easy fix just move every 100 or just don't be a fool
3. assuming you are immune to all disease, I would train my mind so I don't go mental (read books etc)
4. I don't think you would go insane, you would learn to enjoy your time with friends
5. this is only true assuming humans die out.
2. That's easy fix just move every 100 or just don't be a fool
3. assuming you are immune to all disease, I would train my mind so I don't go mental (read books etc)
4. I don't think you would go insane, you would learn to enjoy your time with friends
5. this is only true assuming humans die out.
Only thing that makes me hesitate is knowing eventually I'm going to spend the rest of my days floating in a dark black space for a few billion years until the Big Crunch.
As we know Earth and our solar system will eventually be destroyed and the Universe will keep expanding until there is an insurmountable space between each object in the Universe. Even if you happen to colonize another planet the same thing would keep happening until eventually there's no options left. Floating there alone, with no companions or materiel goods for billions upon billion of years would be hell.
As we know Earth and our solar system will eventually be destroyed and the Universe will keep expanding until there is an insurmountable space between each object in the Universe. Even if you happen to colonize another planet the same thing would keep happening until eventually there's no options left. Floating there alone, with no companions or materiel goods for billions upon billion of years would be hell.
Smarter is very questionable. Human brains already perform optimally on almost all tasks. You would probably see better input and output systems, but also better technology to afford you the same abilities and more (and you have infinite time, so if someone else won't, YOU can invent it).the spud said:
What are they going to do to you? You can barely feel pain, they can't threaten to kill you. The thing to do here is obvious: instead of telling no one, tell EVERYONE. Make them love you, become a celebrity. If you suddenly "disappear", everyone needs to react extremely negatively. Hell, use your immortality to become a super hero and win the hearts of the world.the spud said:
This might be more worrisome if we actually had any idea what "growing older mentally" actually meant. There are plenty of people who don't ever develop any sort of age-related dementia or mental illness despite old age. There are plenty of elderly people with great memory and capacity for learning. So it's only reasonable to assume that these things are not a result of aging, but a result of some other weakening that comes with age. Since you aren't affected by such things, it's very unlikely that age-related mental problems would ever be an issue.the spud said:
I completely fail to see why you would expect the sensation of time to change dramatically with extreme age. While it's true that there's an age difference in people reporting how long time periods seem in hindsight, I have never heard of any suggestion that on-line perception of time differs for different age groups.the spud said:
This is probably the most terrifying one. However, it's pretty likely that you could figure out a sort of neural suicide by setting up environmental stimuli such that it would effectively overwrite the information currently in your brain given enough time.the spud said:
Why wouldn't I want to be immortal? Assuming my body stays young, I see no reason not to accept it. :/
It's either die for the rest of eternity sometime down the road or be aware and as far as I can tell there's no benefit from becoming nothingness for the rest of eternity and being immortal gives me all the time in the world to do whatever I want at any point in life I want. I can make things stay interesting. I have all the imagination I could ever need to fuel myself for as long as I want.
It's either die for the rest of eternity sometime down the road or be aware and as far as I can tell there's no benefit from becoming nothingness for the rest of eternity and being immortal gives me all the time in the world to do whatever I want at any point in life I want. I can make things stay interesting. I have all the imagination I could ever need to fuel myself for as long as I want.
Well ordinarily I'd say no, but I don't know if I'd be able to resist a gummi bear...
But seriously, there's no way I could say yes to such a thing. My arguments are basically summed up by the cracked article, especially the last point. You would be stuck for billions of years inside some black hole. Eternal consciousness is basically the ultimate form of torture.
Watch this if you say yes. Imagine Grahams number representing a number of years, would you still say yes?
But seriously, there's no way I could say yes to such a thing. My arguments are basically summed up by the cracked article, especially the last point. You would be stuck for billions of years inside some black hole. Eternal consciousness is basically the ultimate form of torture.
Watch this if you say yes. Imagine Grahams number representing a number of years, would you still say yes?
I know it would end up being like the twilight zone where its awesome at first and then i'll be haunted forever by some very ironic and unfortunate events.. but oh well, if someone offered me immortality i'd take it.
Split the gummy bear in half. Hope that it still works, then keep the other half so that I could give it to someone else later on.
Living forever would be awesome! I would just buy ALL the games. Well, the good ones. And all the books. I could read the entire internet. And rule the world, lets not forget about the ruling of the world.
As for the heat death of the universe... by that time there would be enough technology to be able to send me to another universe. I would just take a very long nap. Eventually be woken up because I crashed into something, and then I can go out AND CONQUER
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EDIT: I'm pretty sure that 3. on cracked is wrong. When you get older, you start erasing memories. You do it all the time. Remember when you went to the bathroom last week? No? It's because your brain has no need to remember it, so after a while it gets erased. Haven't spoken french since high school? Yeah, you can't speak it anymore.
Living forever would be awesome! I would just buy ALL the games. Well, the good ones. And all the books. I could read the entire internet. And rule the world, lets not forget about the ruling of the world.
As for the heat death of the universe... by that time there would be enough technology to be able to send me to another universe. I would just take a very long nap. Eventually be woken up because I crashed into something, and then I can go out AND CONQUER
.EDIT: I'm pretty sure that 3. on cracked is wrong. When you get older, you start erasing memories. You do it all the time. Remember when you went to the bathroom last week? No? It's because your brain has no need to remember it, so after a while it gets erased. Haven't spoken french since high school? Yeah, you can't speak it anymore.
The point of that video pretty much skipped over me because i couldnt stop thinking of how much that guy sounded like snake from MGS.Womplord said:
I kid but yeah, i figure if 7.6 trillion years is actually miniscule on the scale of infinity then ive got a while to invent whatever i want.. maybe more magic gummy bears, maybe a time machine so i could go back in time and stop myself from taking the gummy bear (woo for time paradoxes).. maybe i'll invent my own race of sentient machines to keep my company once organic life has died out after 3^^^^3 years.
Yes, because once civilisation falls you can create your own for whoever/whatever still inhabits the planet. It would be like Minecraft/Terraria!
Also if you lived for Billions of years you would be able to actually witness evolution and that would be incredible, and the rise and fall of more civilisations.
If you get bored, take a walk through the world, and swim across sea's, and meet new people. Literally being immortal also means you have no limits, just start jumping off of stuff to receive a thrill, being immortal wouldnt make feeling a rush redundant..
Plus as your immortal, cant die, feel pain etc. pretend its Grand theft auto and break a bunch of laws, steal cars and weapons and go on a spree! If it gets too much and the authorities want you dead, just hide out in a different country, even in a hole for a hundred years.
And all you Naysayers out there, you could do absolutely anything, frickin hell whats going to stop you?
I'd love the idea because then I would be able to cut myself away from the system and live my own life the way I want it and not let my life be determined by what grades I get or how much money I make.....
Also if you lived for Billions of years you would be able to actually witness evolution and that would be incredible, and the rise and fall of more civilisations.
If you get bored, take a walk through the world, and swim across sea's, and meet new people. Literally being immortal also means you have no limits, just start jumping off of stuff to receive a thrill, being immortal wouldnt make feeling a rush redundant..
Plus as your immortal, cant die, feel pain etc. pretend its Grand theft auto and break a bunch of laws, steal cars and weapons and go on a spree! If it gets too much and the authorities want you dead, just hide out in a different country, even in a hole for a hundred years.
And all you Naysayers out there, you could do absolutely anything, frickin hell whats going to stop you?
I'd love the idea because then I would be able to cut myself away from the system and live my own life the way I want it and not let my life be determined by what grades I get or how much money I make.....
I wd take it, as for evolving I suppose you cd always evolve in your own way, think of the things you could accomplish in an eternity, I'd like to see how the world finally ends