• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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          depends the type of immortality.

          Absolute magical immortality: worse hell imaginable.

          Never age: Best immortality, can still die though, accumulation of injuries will be an issue.

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              6 months ago

              Preach!

              I want to live today, I wanted to live yesterday and I imagine the most likely state for tomorrow is “I still want to live”. And I’ve absolutely had times, quite recently too, where my state was “maybe I don’t have the drive to live anymore” but I always came out living and being okay with that. And I keep on preferring it to the very final alternative.

              Opt-Out immortality is quite good! Opt-Out immortality and eternal youth is better.

              The horror of eternal, unavoidable immortality is imho mostly just projection of the absolutely eternal and (likely) unavoidable horror of death. Absolutes are scary. But as long as I have the option to check out, you might find me enjoying living forever in eternity.

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              6 months ago

              the issue is that “immortality” is impossible and not the same as life extension. Immortality would only work as a magic thing. Or maybe brain upload thing.

              Otherwise the best is just medical life extension. Which is a very different topic.

  • Ignotum@lemmy.world
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    One dollar in 5 million years because i’ll be long dead and one of my descendants will have a dollar

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      6 months ago

      that’s cool as shit, your descendant would be long lost fossil after martians take over earth.

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    6 months ago

    Trick question

    You get 5 minion dollars in a year… and that year is 5 minion years from now, so you also get one dollar in 5 minion years

    So I pick both since that’s only one option

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    Ooh trick question. Even tho one dollar in 5 million years sounds like huge numbers, don’t forget to adjust for inflation. Stay woke.