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Billionaire Anti-Aging Zealot Shares Data on Son’s Erections (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't wanna live forever. But the act of dying is usually pretty horrible, so I wanna push that off as long as possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

pushing off dying as long as possible, if done successfully, is living forever though? do you not see the contradiction in what you wrote?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No. Humans aren't psychically able to be immortal without genetic engineering, which as far as the public knows, we don't have yet. Certain death is currently hard codded into our genes. Since I wasn't genetically modified as an embryo, I cannot live forever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

i feel like you've shifted the goalposts, here. previously, you said you didn't want to live forever, now you're just saying you can't live forever.

also, we absolutely do have genetic engineering. it's been a thing since the 70s. the covid-19 vaccine, for instance, was a feat of genetic engineering. furthermore, techniques such as gene therapy can indeed modify the genetic information of adults.

P.S. i assumed you meant physically, rather than psychically, but if you did mean the latter, then i have no idea what you're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can’t live forever. But I also don’t want to. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. And yes, we have genetic engineering, but nothing so far that would make humans immortal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

i know they aren't mutually exclusive claims, they just seem unrelated, which is why your shift in topic seemed unexpected to me. maybe they're not for you? do you want to die eventually because you think you have to anyway? is this a general policy of not wanting things that seem difficult to get? personally, there's loads of things i'd like that are currently anywhere from difficult to impossible to achieve.

i just can't bring myself to see the prospect of everyone i know and love withering away and ceasing to exist within a century as anything other than a horrible tragedy. maybe it's unavoidable (though i have some hope that it isn't), but that doesn't mean i have to like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I don’t want to live forever, because at some point you’re going to have done literally everything and seen everything, and I don’t want to live in a world where all wonder has turned into banality, and existence is nothing more than another in a count of days that just ticks endlessly upwards. At some point, even the warmth of love you have towards your family will disappear into the eons of your history, because you’ll have forgotten the things that created those feelings in the first place.