That said, how long would you like to live? 500 years? 1,000 years? Would you get the urge to make a new family every 30 years or so? Would your kids live 500 years or 1,000 years? With everyone doing that, how quickly would we exceed the earth's carrying capacity? Keeping life interesting would be a challenge. There are so many things that are best enjoyed the first time, that get stale when repeated: loves, careers, so forth. Schopenhauer said something quite profound: "Living a long time is like staying too long at the conjurer's booth at the fair; the tricks are meant to be seen only once."
Until you meet the Magician and he invites you to dinner! (Very, very metaphorically speaking.)
“With everyone doing that, how quickly would we exceed the earth’s carrying capacity?”
Maybe very soon, maybe never if we are at the advanced point of defeating aging and natural death on a mass level we would have other technologies that would supposedly take care of this problem. Maybe the immortals wouldn’t even have to eat to live, or only very little or something.
“Keeping life interesting would be a challenge.”
Maybe, maybe not. If it truly defeats senescence maybe that wouldn’t come up. It could be a challenge, or it could be that after 200 years you get interested in going to the colonies on Io or something.
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