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All aboard the crazy train...
Posted on 06/27/2024 12:43:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
“This will play hell with Social Security and Medicare..........................”
Try and imagine the mortgage rate.
How will this repair the natural degradation of the DNA at the cellular level?
All aboard the crazy train...
The Federal Reserve will be printing 100 Trillion Dollar notes just like the ones I bought last week from ZIMBABWE
This is why they will never pass term limits.
“””””(And who knows what kind of world(s) you’d be living in?)””””””
I wonder if 200 year old women would be considered as sexy?
Not gonna happen.
Who knows what they’d even look like?
Experience and character age people even more than time does. I hate to think what endless crap I might experience over a thousand years...
Years ago I read several books in “The Interview with a Vampire” series.
One of the things that some of the really old vampires had an issue with was that they found it hard to live in the world once they became over 500 years old. All their friends and relatives had all died hundreds of years prior. So, they felt out of time. Therefore, they would commit suicide. Like walk out into the sun and burn to death because they just did not want to live anymore.
It was of course a work of fiction.
I’ve always enjoyed life, no matter the circumstances, I would give it a go.
The sci-fi movie Zardoz did an interesting, through shlocky, job of addressing this scenario.
After some type of apocalyse, a group of elites, who call themselves The Eternals, do indeed succeed in becoming immortal. The literally cannot die, even by their own hand apparently (though have they tried cutting off their heads?). Great, eh?
The flip side is that they become so bored with life that they end up wishing fervently for death. Once they do end up becoming mortal again, they respond by committing suicide as quickly as they can.
The rest of humanity are called Brutals, and do indeed live a life that is brutal. They are little more than cave men who can talk.
Have you thought of the burden of a thousand years of memories?
It seems to me that we’ve got a good deal as it is. I don’t have a problem with technology that prolongs life for people with illnesses which lead to what we understand now as ‘premature death’. But I think the time healthy people generally have here is quite enough.
You can sign up; I won’t.
All vaporware.
“The Federal Reserve will be printing 100 Trillion Dollar notes just like the ones I bought last week from ZIMBABWE”
The Simpsons had an episode where Montgomery Burns had a trillion dollar bill. Real life is starting to take on an unreal quality. Rubicons on the horizon.
Why would it stop at a thousand? You would have technology growing all this time, whatever limitations left would likely be overcome.
“In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.”
Great news! I’m only 750 years old now. Wow, another 250 years!
Would you put your brain into an Adrian Barbeaubot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP_ePM3p5uw&t=5s
Nope.
The earliest effects of artificial intelligence will be as if working scientists and researchers are multiplied by ten, a hundred, and a thousand times or more. Contrary to what is often thought, the critical constraint on economic growth is not resources but scientific and technological talent. The more the better, and AI will amplify the potency of human talent to an astonishing degree.
Nevertheless, in daily life, artificial intelligence will arrive more slowly and with less disruption than is commonly projected. The earliest benefits will be that products get better and cheaper as new materials and devices are created and and become widely available. Services will also get better, with craftsman and professionals of all sorts able to get AI help with routine task and even unusual or complicated issues.
Kurzweil has long been wildly over optimistic about nanobots. Medical nanobots are going to continue to be harder to develop and with more limited applications than Kurzweil projects.
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