It’s such a cool idea, I can’t wait to see it happen.
Imagine how cool it would be if technological advances could just be purely exciting advancements for humanity, and you didn’t have to be wary of how every single one actually has some catch where on closer inspection it screws everyone over to enrich some asshole
Agreed, but if everyone were offered life extension (even if it was in exchange for, say, moving off planet or not having kids), it’d be amazing, transformative to the human condition in an almost entirely good way. We’d all have to start taking the long view, we could have 500-year plans.
Even being healthy and young until say 120 and then a fast decline would literally allow us to divert 20% of our total resources to something not based on aging or death.
Someone pointed out if humanity invented immortality, even just as AIs who could continue to own their wealth, we would just have 10,000-generation-old Trumps and Bezoses
I have a friend I argue with about this issue all the time. He firmly believes that we can be excited about tech advancement because eventually singularity will inevitably end scarcity and there will be no way for anyone to hoard that power. 🤷♂️
wait til you see Elon Musk appropriating the idea and make you end up absolutely hating it
bold of you to assume he wont try and attempt some pseudo sci-fi technique to evade death
can’t wait to see that fail miserably and have him trapped into a hell of his own making (or rather his employees lol)
We can play futbol with his cryogenically frozen head after the revolution
Yup, imagine being a bartender at a bar for asteroid miners or ship builders.
This was a big part of Mars Trilogy, which is a book everyone should read.
Capitalists will find a way to ruin it, don’t worry