I think Borges is correct in principle when he posits true immortality as a curse, but I think he's absolutely wrong that someone would get bored of life within a couple thousand years. I would bet a considerable sum that it would take me five thousand years minimum to get sick of living if my body remained in decent condition, and I would probably make it to ten if people kept making music and food
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i feel like. after the first fall of society i might get bored until a new society starts up. But the next time society falls I think id be bored even as the society exists again
I imagine being an artificial lifeform, studying mathematics and physics, and seeing society slowly improve like a modded minecraft playthrough working through the various tech stages, and being a part of it.
I don't think I would get tired of that easily.
yeah but imagine that but as someone who can't move past allistic cis heterosexual culture. Most people couldn't hold out more than a few hundred years if they're caught in The Grand Game
but also like, imagine what being in the same field for even 50 years does to the field in terms of synthesis ability.
imagine the snippet library you'll have by the 100th year of immortality hahaha
I would probably end up inventing new reference technology just to keep track of everything I knew
wow it makes so much sense now. Vannevar Bush was a vampire! he died of pneumonia because a lung puncture is technically a stake!
Yeah, like... I don't see the issue. As long as there's people, there's always something to do. When there's not people, it'd be a lot more maddening, but you can prepare for that too. You've got all the time in the world.
The wrong man in the right place can make all the dif..ference in the world.