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[deleted] t1_j4an764 wrote

I don’t know who would have the greed to live more than the normal human lifespan.

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[deleted] t1_j4aq80z wrote

Just about anyone?

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[deleted] t1_j4ard9e wrote

Wait until you are 80 and tell me again if you want to live more.

80 years is a lot of time, the problem is that you spend 40% of your years in an office cubicle. You could live 250 years, if you were miserable for 180 years you'd still be unhappy and you'd still want more.

We should work more on quality and less on quantity, what do you say?

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gurenkagurenda t1_j4azjh6 wrote

You’re arguing this point from so many directions, I don’t know where to start. I’ll just say this: I have a to do list of projects that I absolutely adore working through, and it just keeps growing, with no end in sight. Every time I push into new territory, it opens up new possibilities, and I think of new things to try. Meanwhile, I can earn plenty of money without being miserable. When I’m 80, I will still have plenty left to do and learn, but my body and mind may no longer be up to it. If we can actually reverse aging, that will no longer be the case.

So I don’t know what to tell you. Maybe your life isn’t interesting enough to enjoy for more than 80 years, but mine sure as hell is.

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[deleted] t1_j4cpj97 wrote

??? lmao. that's funny. that you think humans are gonna be WORKING by 2050. that's hilarious. as if AI didn't just replace all the god damn artists in the world and caused an uproar online. the world is going to be taken over by ASI given any rate of progress, and you're obviously not ready for that. the fact you think the singularity won't happen at all, even by 2100, shows how inept you are when it comes to technology. even the smartest scientists at Google believe sentient ai is on the way, see laMDA.

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[deleted] t1_j4cpyz2 wrote

Dude you probably didn't finish high-school, pipe down the armchair futurology.

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[deleted] t1_j4crmgd wrote

I don't need a PhD to know that by 2100 the world's gonna look completely different. we can have differing opinions about whether it goes the nuclear route or the futurism cyberpunk route but the fact you think desk jobs will still exist by then is just a joke. pretty sure people today in their middle age didn't even know what a damn computer was back in their day.

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cargocultist94 t1_j4brogu wrote

Me?

Working forty, taking ten, and retraining in uni sounds sweet if I can do it a few times in the body of a 20 year old.

Hell you yourself. I guarantee that if I put the eternal youth injection in front of you you'd take it.

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FRYETIME t1_j4f43ex wrote

Damn right I would. I wouldn’t mind working a few extra years (decades even) if it meant I could stay young indefinitely. I could invest the whole way and eventually have a fun and adventurous retirement with a young body.

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GhostofDownvotes t1_j4beoct wrote

Raises paw. Thank you very much. You’re more than welcome to go and do whatever it is you do on your mental illness r/AntiNatalism cope subreddit.

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[deleted] t1_j4bewsw wrote

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GhostofDownvotes t1_j4bfazu wrote

I’m very content with the human condition. Especially the one that makes the human condition of the past less shit. Go ride a goat, you luddite.

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