If you could live forever, would you want to?
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Assuming a new medical breakthrough allowed you to live as long as you like, barring accidents and murders, how long would be long enough? What problems, apart from having to deal with Y10K issues (still probably in COBOL) do you see coming up?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
I'd say, after 3 or so thousand years, you'd have seen all there is (new tech is fine & dandy but in the grand picture, everything develops in a spiral, not a straight line) so life would become rather boring.
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If I put 10K in an index fund at let's say 5% annually, what would that be in 1000 years?
In the long, long, run common rate of return assumptions just wont pan out. Story made short: Two descendents of two men find a 2000 year old scroll that is a document of one shekel loan at 8% annually between their ancestors, never paid back. The one descendent decides to make good to the other on the ancient debt only to find that the cost of the compounded interest is a ball of gold bigger than the sun.
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Assuming a new medical breakthrough allowed you to live as long as you like, barring accidents and murders, how long would be long enough? What problems, apart from having to deal with Y10K issues (still probably in COBOL) do you see coming up?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
On one hand I would love to develop skills for hundreds of years and truly master them, and on the other hand after being around already 64 years I have lost pets to old age and those times hurt.
Motto: Ask for help when needed, give help when asked, and remember where you came from.
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Assuming a new medical breakthrough allowed you to live as long as you like, barring accidents and murders, how long would be long enough? What problems, apart from having to deal with Y10K issues (still probably in COBOL) do you see coming up?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Read Robert Heinlein's "Lazarus Long" series of books. They are a really great series on that topic.
I don't want to live forever. Just long enough to pay off all of my credit card debt.
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Assuming a new medical breakthrough allowed you to live as long as you like, barring accidents and murders, how long would be long enough? What problems, apart from having to deal with Y10K issues (still probably in COBOL) do you see coming up?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Who really wants to live forever?
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Assuming a new medical breakthrough allowed you to live as long as you like, barring accidents and murders, how long would be long enough? What problems, apart from having to deal with Y10K issues (still probably in COBOL) do you see coming up?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
If we're limited to the Earth, no. I would think the old proverb 'familiarity breeds contempt' would hold true. Eventually you'd have seen everything and pretty much done everything to do, so why stick around? Heh, everyone would be a know it all, and you know how hard it to be around them!
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Read Robert Heinlein's "Lazarus Long" series of books. They are a really great series on that topic.
I don't want to live forever. Just long enough to pay off all of my credit card debt.
Apparently someone thinks a recommendation of a series on books that were first printed in the previous millennium is spam. That person obviously likes following rules slavishly. :doh: Good books, by the way. I've read all of them.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That depends. Does this treatment halt, or reverse, physical and mental decline? Or do we get to look forward to 900 years of senility, arthritis, and getting up ten times a night to pee? (Although I supposed getting up ten times a night is better than not getting up. :) ) Also, how much does it cost? If you're still paying off the cost of treatment as a quincentenarian, then it doesn't sound like a good deal. Even worse if you have to regularly repeat the treatment.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Now this person watches The Twilight Zone.
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Read Robert Heinlein's "Lazarus Long" series of books. They are a really great series on that topic.
I don't want to live forever. Just long enough to pay off all of my credit card debt.
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Well, I would sit back and watch the humanity go on destroying itself until it is not amusing anymore. So about ten years from now.
It already stopped being amusing.
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Assuming a new medical breakthrough allowed you to live as long as you like, barring accidents and murders, how long would be long enough? What problems, apart from having to deal with Y10K issues (still probably in COBOL) do you see coming up?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Assuming a new medical breakthrough allowed you to live as long as you like, barring accidents and murders, how long would be long enough? What problems, apart from having to deal with Y10K issues (still probably in COBOL) do you see coming up?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Assuming a new medical breakthrough allowed you to live as long as you like, barring accidents and murders, how long would be long enough? What problems, apart from having to deal with Y10K issues (still probably in COBOL) do you see coming up?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
It all depends on whether or not there is a purpose for continuing in this body. I am not my body.
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Assuming a new medical breakthrough allowed you to live as long as you like, barring accidents and murders, how long would be long enough? What problems, apart from having to deal with Y10K issues (still probably in COBOL) do you see coming up?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
I am financially planning to reach 80 though I honestly doubt that I'll make 24 more years: overweight, inactive, diabetic, etc. I have already thanked my doctor for achieving the goal I requested of him many years ago: keep me alive until my kids are adults. I pointed out the rest is just gravy to me; however, he contends that, like most, I will become greedy for more life as I get older. Time will tell, but any way you look at it, there are a LOT more years in the rearview mirror than ahead through the windshield, and I am fine with that. Tuesday, January 19, 2038, might be a concern for any 32-bit systems remaining. That's coming sooner than we might think, and heck, I might live to see it.
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Assuming a new medical breakthrough allowed you to live as long as you like, barring accidents and murders, how long would be long enough? What problems, apart from having to deal with Y10K issues (still probably in COBOL) do you see coming up?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
What is it to live? If loss starting not being painful. Also at which point would your view of the world start leaning toward causing genocide for the ridiculous things humanity has done to the plant? As a lover of computers, I also see my own contradiction in that one they have provided significant benefits but also the environmental cost has been hidden for a lack of another term.
