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"The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 11:01 am
(December 14, 2015 at 9:11 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: You can train your memory. And you'll still remember everything, just not in as much detail. That might work for a while but you would run out memory like an iPhone.
Quote:But think about how much you could learn. You could become an expert in a lot of areas at once.
You would forget how to do something after a couple of hundred years or less perhaps.
You could become a cyborg one day and have unlimited memory but I don't thing you would be the same person at that point.
Quote:Are we seriously debating right now whether it's a good thing or not not to die?
Nope, just facts concerning living forever.
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RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 11:56 am
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We couldn't support a race of immortals on this rock. Look at how shitty it already is for most of us - now spread those resources out further. Not that I'd have to worry about it, immortality will be too expensive for my blood if they ever figure it out.
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December 14, 2015 at 11:57 am
Does that mean we'd be elderly for 440 years?
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December 14, 2015 at 12:00 pm
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I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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December 14, 2015 at 12:01 pm
(December 14, 2015 at 6:16 am)Amine Wrote: "Old people are people too, so the fact that aging only kills old people is not a reason not to be working on defeating it."
That quote I just heard from Aubrey de Grey is a game changer, I think. It reveals an unexamined bigotry we have. We think it is okay that they die, because they are old. That's actually incredibly bigoted.
What? That's not bigotted, it's just the law of nature. Everything that is alive wears out, gets old, and dies.
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December 14, 2015 at 12:04 pm
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The Government should make living forever a right. It should be a part of healthcare.
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December 14, 2015 at 12:04 pm
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December 14, 2015 at 12:06 pm
"It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light."
Anybody else?
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December 14, 2015 at 12:08 pm
(December 14, 2015 at 12:04 pm)KUSA Wrote: The Government should make living forever a right. It should be a part of healthcare.
How is this even possible without over populating the world?
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December 14, 2015 at 12:22 pm
(December 14, 2015 at 12:08 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (December 14, 2015 at 12:04 pm)KUSA Wrote: The Government should make living forever a right. It should be a part of healthcare.
How is this even possible without over populating the world?
Sure. We can all live and limit new people to replacing the ones that died from accidents and such.
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