It would suck if you took the offer and then fell into a well. A deep well. In the forest. A deep forest.
Hope you brought some cards.
I guess **HazelNutCoffee **is right about my cynicism, because I imagined being abducted by the government/aliens/crazy guy and being vivisected every day. Like an even suckier modern day Promethius.
I would do it, sure thing. Watching my friends and family die would be hard, but after a couple hundred years, It would likely just be a faded memory. Of course, take my opinion with a grain of salt. I am not super close with any friends and family, the hardest to lose would be my current girlfriend.
No doubt about it. No matter how bored you would get (and I dont think you would), its better than disappearing into oblivion. I would jump at the chance to see where things go in the future.
Not to say it wouldn’t be difficult seeing my friends and family die, and then living long enough to forget them.
I think you’re making common false assumptions about evolutions - that humans are evolving to a set goal of being smart, strong, etc.
It’s often the case in the artificial constructs human of society that the weakest/dumbest/whatever are often the most prolific spawners - so it’s entirely possible that we’re evolving towards a weaker, dumber race. In any case, we’re talking about time scales that I’m not optimistic about humanity surviving through.
For what it’s worth, my answer is no way. People who are saying boredom wouldn’t be an issue, I think, have never truly tried to contemplate large time scales. You might say “I’m 40, and there’s still plenty left to do” - but what when you’re 40,000? I wouldn’t even remotely consider it without an escape clause - could there be a worse hell than perpetual existance in our current forms? And even with one, I’d be iffy.
I thought about that when I made that post. There’s reason to believe increasing intelligence isn’t the goal of evolution or any sort of inevitability. But barring some great cataclysm which sends us back to the dark ages, humans are increasingly taking control of their own evolution, via modern technology. I don’t think we’re going to voluntarily select ourselves for increasing stupidity, even if “dumb people” are the most prolific spawners.
IMO, except for the important high points, people forget most of their lives and most of what they’ve learned. Sure, I remember some stuff from college. But I don’t remember every single day I was in college. Do you? What were you doing at 8 AM on October the 14th, 1982? What did you have for breakfast that day? What were you wearing? What conversations did you have?
Unless something significant happened that day, you probably have no idea. You might remember some general things about that period of your life, but that’s it. I’m sitting here trying to remember my 7th grade class. I can remember my teacher and a handful of other students who were either my friends or in some other way rememberable but I was in a class with something like 25 students and I really don’t remember most of them and probably never will.
My point is people forget on a regular basis and every 30 or 50 or 80 years you’re going to have forgotten so many things I wonder how you could get bored with so much new stuff to learn.
Yeah. Ten-plus years later, I still think that. Provided life went on as it did back then, of course.
As for the topic of the thread, give me the escape clause and I’m all for it. Boredom? You’re kidding. I could travel my entire mortal life and never see even a tiny tiny fraction of everything there is to see. By the time I as an immortal have seen everything, the world will have changed enough that I could see it all again and it’d all be new
But clarification, please. I can’t starve to death, right? What happens if I don’t eat? Do I get hungrier and hungrier until all I can do is sit around and scream for food, or what?