immortality???

whoa182 · 03-02-2005

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Originally Posted by Fishteacher73

Ever try to watch the standard grandma try to use a computer...With the exponentail growth of technology if we lived that long we would be useless. Unable to exist effectively in the post-modern world.

Not if we ride the exponential curve. If we upgrade ourselves and keep our mental ability we will do just fine!

whoa182 · 03-02-2005

Well Immortality wouldnt be for everyone.. But people will still die, THey just wouldnt die of old age ( the old fashioned way )

Im sorry if most of you have somewhat boring interests and lives, but I dont and I want to live as long as possible. I am 20 now and by the average span I only have another 60 + years.

My first 10 years I was only just learning about the world and didnt really understand anything, I am not the same person as I was then and I didnt desire anything but to play with friends and watch teenage mutant ninja turtles. All my 20 years of Life I have just been learning and not experiencing the world. Education for me is going to continue for a few years yet and most people are in education most of their lives !

Now whats the point in losing all that information, We spend so many years of our lives learning and then die only a few years later !

For me personally I want to see how much the world changes with these new emerging technologies. Some things I want to be around to see happen and be invovled in

Robotics
Super Intelligence A.I
Biotechnology - Enhancing humans and becoming superhuman
Nanotechnology - So much promise with this technology and its expected to be big !
Space - I want to colonize the galaxy, be invovled in exploration of space, find other civilizations and find answeres to questions that I will not find with current human life span
Virtual reality - Creating worlds in virtual reality, and basicly experiencing anything I want in a fully immersed virtual world

I have many hobbies and interests.

I want to to see the whole world and spend a few years in each country. I want to become professional at many sports. I love creating music, I love creating art, I am interesting in nature and animals. I am interested in how the future world will turn out.

THere is plenty of stuff to do and without a doubt, things to do are increasing all the time. You just gotta find some interests and if you cant, That is your problem not mine

The problem is, You expect life to be the same in the future as it is today, but you are totally wrong... The future is probably going to be unrecognizable, completely weird compared to today.

whoa182 · 03-02-2005

PLEASE TAKE A LISTEN OF THIS RECORDING ( MP3 )

A Theory of Fun
A talk given by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lead researcher with the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, June 28, 2003 at the Transvision Conference.

http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=7610

Right click on FTP link or the HTTP link and " save target as ". Low quality or high quality available on that page

"You hear a lot about overcoming your fear of death, but how many have overcome the fear of living forever ? "

please listen to this and comment on his talk, IM interested if he changes your view

If you would like to talk to Aubrey about SENS then you can over here

http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?s=&act=SF&f=173

whoa182 · 03-03-2005

Maybe not then

Biochemist · 03-15-2005

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Originally Posted by C1ay

"Kurzweil writes of millions of blood cell-sized robots, which he calls "nanobots," that will keep us forever young by swarming through the body, repairing bones, muscles, arteries and brain cells. Improvements to our genetic coding will be downloaded via the Internet. We won't even need a heart.

Although much of Kurzweil's thought is both interesting and of merit, I suspect the notion of "repair" in this context is inaccurate. Most cells (non-cancerous ones anyway) have a finite life span, and essentially stop functioning by DNA design at a preset target. That is, they are not "broken" when they die, they are functioning normally.

I suspect that "repair" of this problem would require remediation at the level of the germ cell, not post hoc repair 10 trillion cells later. This would imply that those of us who are already born (as I suspect most of you readers are) are unlikely to live to 1000. But the option is open for our unborn progeny.

Just a guess.