Some time back I read an interview with a scientist who was developing a lattice structure to grow human neural tissue on, to interface with computer memory. He said a friend of his wife asked if he believed in God. He said, “Of course! I’m building him in my laboratory.”
While you might live forever accidents do happen so you probably wouldnt live forever anyway.
Disease, accidents, wars, drugs etc etc also affect life length.
I like to keep busy so as long as I have enough money to fund my hobbies I would be happy for as long as it lasts.
Disease, accidents, wars, drugs etc etc also affect life length.
I like to keep busy so as long as I have enough money to fund my hobbies I would be happy for as long as it lasts.
There is nothing in our genes that prescribes mortality. What happens is that normal wear and tear and copying errors cause defects which may or may not be mortal. Going blind isn't; a broken heart valve is not if you are on time, as the undersigned found out.
A copying error leading to a growing tumor often is mortal. It is logical that with improving medical interventions and technology, more and more defects go to the 'can be fixed' column, and are no longer mortal.
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Shouldn't the title reflect that number?
Yes it should, my bad.
BTW, the average would be 3000. If you stay inside the house, never drive in a car and make sure you don't become suicidal, you can easily add another 3k to your lifespan of course.
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People get stuck in their ways, with turnover reduced by a factor of 30 this could become stifling. If you think you’re fed up with threads about cables already, how’d it feel after another 1,000 years?
As a Functional Safety (FailSafe) engineer I was always impressed with the fact that one had a 1 in 10,000 chance of death per year due to an automobile accident.
330,000,000 people in the USA, 33000 deaths per year is 1: 10,000.
We as safety engineers accepted the 1 in 10,000 probability as a basis for designs and this was also taken for granted by the certifying bodies in Europe.
Try to factor that out.
We can for automobiles, if we go to autonomous vehicles, however this number shows up in a lot of other incidents.
So the probability of surviving 3000 years is (1-(1 in 10,000 +1) raised to the 3000th power), roughly 0.3498. Not bad really.
I am in my 71st cycle around the sun. I am not sure I would like to make 3000. Even if I maintained my health I had when I was 30, There are population issues we face with our limited life expectancy that would severely tax the earth if the mean life expectancy was much greater.
Heinlein - "Time Enough for Love"
330,000,000 people in the USA, 33000 deaths per year is 1: 10,000.
We as safety engineers accepted the 1 in 10,000 probability as a basis for designs and this was also taken for granted by the certifying bodies in Europe.
Try to factor that out.
We can for automobiles, if we go to autonomous vehicles, however this number shows up in a lot of other incidents.
So the probability of surviving 3000 years is (1-(1 in 10,000 +1) raised to the 3000th power), roughly 0.3498. Not bad really.
I am in my 71st cycle around the sun. I am not sure I would like to make 3000. Even if I maintained my health I had when I was 30, There are population issues we face with our limited life expectancy that would severely tax the earth if the mean life expectancy was much greater.
Heinlein - "Time Enough for Love"
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That will likely cause vitamin D deficiency or psychological issues and health problems that follow.
But riding bicycle or horse may cause its own set of risks. Even running can be risky.
Staying inside the house all the time may well drive someone to become suicidal. We already have the stats on that during pandemic lock-down.
To avoid all the risks mentioned above, one can go into stasis pod and last 3K I suppose.
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Forget horse riding, it’s no longer feasible at population levels lower than today. Without the advent of mechanized transport the City of London was slowly being buried in horse ****, they were close to breaking point.
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I recommend watching the black mirror episode called "San Junipero"
dont read any reviews because they might give away what this episode is about
dont read any reviews because they might give away what this episode is about
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As I'm coming towards the end of my life, I can't think of any reason that I want it extended. I have a use by date for a reason.
Now at 50, I admit I'm thinking about all that a bit more frequently than 10 years before but still in a positive way. I only care about living, death is at the end of this and no closer than that. What I find interesting is the way I develop a very stable daily routine and this makes me think it's my defense. I guess autistic persons are blessed in that aspect! Perhaps I could get higher score in the Asperger test in another 10 years. 3000 years are good enough to break the meter...
I think I'd come up against the " box set syndrome " - imagine that you love an old TV series ( red dwarf, friends, Joan Higson Marple etc ), so you decide to by a box set. From then on you don't bother to watch repeats when the come on TV, because you already can watch them when you like because of the box set, but you don't watch the box set because you're saving it for a rainy day, or you think a whole box set is a bit daunting. So you end up never watching something that you greatly enjoy.
Is one of the conditions of living for 3,000 years that you'd remember about 37 lifetimes worth of memories ? Coping with that amount of rubbish in my head would be a nightmare, I currently get confused with not only what happened in which book I've read, but which author. I even got mixed up with a car crash in the Fionavar tapestry and a Pearl Jam song.
Is one of the conditions of living for 3,000 years that you'd remember about 37 lifetimes worth of memories ? Coping with that amount of rubbish in my head would be a nightmare, I currently get confused with not only what happened in which book I've read, but which author. I even got mixed up with a car crash in the Fionavar tapestry and a Pearl Jam song.
Good point, how confusing and false would our memories become after 500, 1000, 2000 years? Would all the early stuff get lost?
Memory loss is the side effect of brain cells and nerves dying off or getting damaged. If we can fix that, maybe we never have to forget anything. The capacity certainly is there.
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There are so many things going on that I want to see how they develop, I need at least another 100 years. Mankind going into space, climate change and how we react to that, medical advances, maybe a large collider around the planet, how's that for length (and no theoretical reason it wont work, a Lagrange ring?*), etc, etc. I'm to curious for my own good!
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* Big advantage of a collider in vacuum is that it doesn't have to be a continuous closed tube, it can just be a bunch of accelerators/focus rings along the path of a circle.
That's something I don't want to be around for. I've seen enough already. It's going to bring big changes to humanity whether we act on it or not.
I'm fascinated by natural history; especially catastrophes that changed the earth. Climate change has certainly shaped human history, and it probably is going to do it again. It's like a slow motion catastrophe to our perception, but it is driving evolution and habitat change at a very rapid rate by Mother Nature's standards.
So supposing you have a really good memory ( and you could always keep a diary ), imagine how much you'd find " history " gets wrong, how much is conveniently forgotten and how much is just re-written. In the book I'm currently reading, someone has built a stronghold " little more than a wind-brake with a roof on " in the middle of a boggy marsh, but you know when the minstrels and poets lament about it in centuries hence, it will be a mighty fortress in a beautiful land.