How long would you live, given the option?

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by Xadem

on 3/4/2023

Posts: 5402

If you had the choice to live until a set age in full health and relative youth, what age would you choose to live to?

You can only choose once. And suicide is not an option, you are unable to die until the end of your 'term'.

I'm thinking if I would make myself practically immortal by heaping billions of years onto my life, in hopes of experiencing humanity's journey into the stars and mind uploading, among other technologies that both don't exist yet, or are unimaginable and basically magic to us right now.

But if that happens and I end up being fried alive for 500 million years in the core of a star whose gravity keeps me trapped, I'd be quite regretful.

Then again, an opportunity like this would feel like a waste if I chose to live for "only" 2000 years. Time is tricky

last edit on 3/4/2023 6:04:44 PM

How much time would you add to your life?

+100 years

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+1000 years

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+10000 years

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+100000 years

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+1000000 years

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by Good

on 3/4/2023

Posts: 2866

Forever. With the option to suicide. I will finally have enough time to finish all my projects.

Cheery bye!

last edit on 3/4/2023 5:44:46 PM

by Xadem

on 3/4/2023

Posts: 5402

Good said:
Forever. With the option to suicide. I will finally have enough time to finish all my projects.

The option to suicide was not mentioned in the prompt.

I'll clarify.

You don't just get to live that amount of time. You have to live it. You pick forever? You literally never die.

by Good

on 3/4/2023

Posts: 2866

Xadem said:
Good said:
Forever. With the option to suicide. I will finally have enough time to finish all my projects.
The option to suicide was not mentioned in the prompt.
I'll clarify.
You don't just get to live that amount of time. You have to live it. You pick forever? You literally never die.

You didn't clarify it's absence either. I'd pick 1000 billion years. Idk why seems long enough.

Cheery bye!

by Xadem

on 3/4/2023

Posts: 5402

Good said:
Xadem said:
Good said:
Forever. With the option to suicide. I will finally have enough time to finish all my projects.
The option to suicide was not mentioned in the prompt.
I'll clarify.
You don't just get to live that amount of time. You have to live it. You pick forever? You literally never die.
You didn't clarify it's absence either. I'd pick 1000 billion years. Idk why seems long enough.

Fair enough. Edited in the OP

What would you hope to do or see in 1 bil years?

by Turncoat

on 3/4/2023

Posts: 33412

If it's functionally immortality rather than simply not dying of aging as I become a fucked up decaying husk that still functionally blinks it's eyeskin over the worn out holes, then Forever.

I'm sure my mind would adjust to the conditions, and if no one else is immortal it'd let me be a proper testing basis for it. I would never have to worry about the mortal ramifications of anything I did and therefor could do anything.

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by Good

on 3/4/2023

Posts: 2866

Xadem said:
Good said:
Xadem said:
The option to suicide was not mentioned in the prompt.
I'll clarify.
You don't just get to live that amount of time. You have to live it. You pick forever? You literally never die.
You didn't clarify it's absence either. I'd pick 1000 billion years. Idk why seems long enough.
Fair enough. Edited in the OP
What would you hope to do or see in 1 bil years?