RealHornblower t1_j3cpreb wrote on January 7, 2023 at 5:06 PM

It's not a binary, one-time decision "do I live a normal lifespan or get locked into a billion+ year existence no matter how horrible it gets."

You can always stop the treatment after "only" 500 or 5000 or 5 million years if you want. Take a year to go over the pros and cons of living every millennium or so.

phriot t1_j3cr4xi wrote on January 7, 2023 at 5:15 PM

Because this is just conversation, rather than anything based in science, let's also assume that if you can live for 500 Million years, that we've also long since figured out how to both upload ourselves to computers and to put ourselves in an indefinite state of suspended animation. There's no need to really ever "die." You can just hit the pause button for a while, and then come back every so often to see if anything is interesting enough to spin back up for a bit.