Live forever but there’s a catch.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Live forever but there’s a catch.

You get two options:

Reverse age. Option. A. Once you’ve reached age 75 or whatever age you like you take a simple growth hormone and it starts a process for which you will grow younger at the same pace as you are now only the other direction All the way unless you are injected with a anti hormone. Otherwise you would keep growing younger until you shrank and desolved into goo.


Artificial Womb. Option. B. You go into an incubator that mimics all the conditions that went into your birth except for a few details isolated in the process to keep you, you. However everything else is rebuilt, when you come out you are in premium condition forever. You’re stronger, faster and smarter than you ever been, but to maintain this superior state you can no longer eat regular food. No no you couldn’t eat enough energy before your organs burst to maintain this new body. You have to eat special diet of super food. Failure to do so and your new body will fall apart faster than you did previously with more pain. Oh and the food you need isn’t cheap.

So which would you choose?

Do you want to live forever for a price?

[Jayburner]

I eat crap food anyways. So it's all good to me.

[D Luniz]

doesn't sound like your living forever, just maybe, twice as long

and that second half is REALLY shitty sounding

[Nasuuna]

Ill take the reverse aging

The artificial womb seems like it'll change me dramatically

[Doctor Amadeus]

doesn't sound like your living forever, just maybe, twice as long

and that second half is REALLY shitty sounding

Great point nothings free.

[cubby]

Live forever but there’s a catch.

You get two options:

Reverse age. Once you’ve reached age 75 or whatever age you like you take a simple growth hormone and it starts a process for which you will grow younger at the same pace as you are now only the other direction All the way unless you are injected with and anti hormone. Otherwise you would keep growing younger until you shrank and desolved into goo.


Artificial Womb. You go into an incubator that mimics all the conditions that went into your birth except for a few details isolated in the process to keep you, you. However everything else is rebuilt, when you come out you are in premium condition forever. You’re stronger, faster and smarter than you ever been, but to maintain this superior state you can no longer eat regular food. No no you couldn’t eat enough energy before your organs burst to maintain this new body. You have to eat special diet of super food. Failure to do so and your new body will fall apart faster than you did previously with more pain. Oh and the food you need isn’t cheap.

So which would you choose?

Do you want to live forever for a price?

I like the idea, eternity with a catch. These are a little odd catches, but hey, I'm game.

I gotta go with the forward/backward option. The other one seems like a huge hassle.

[Doctor Amadeus]

I like the idea, eternity with a catch. These are a little odd catches, but hey, I'm game.

I gotta go with the forward/backward option. The other one seems like a huge hassle.

Yep I never liked the idea of utopia. I mean I do but I never felt things work out that way. I also never observed anything free. No right answer but I picked B. And, I could honestly just be chaining myself to a fate much worse.

[Shadowferal]

Hmf...you lose the humanity when death goes away.

[cubby]

Yep I never liked the idea of utopia. I mean I do but I never felt things work out that way. I also never observed anything free. No right answer but I picked B. And, I could honestly just be chaining myself to a fate much worse.

Lol, you could.

Have you seen this site before: https://www.futuretimeline.net/

Really interesting stuff on humanities future being played out based on good guesses. "Practical immortality" is at our doorstep, is one of my favorites.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Lol, you could.

Have you seen this site before: https://www.futuretimeline.net/

Really interesting stuff on humanities future being played out based on good guesses. "Practical immortality" is at our doorstep, is one of my favorites.

Thanks Cubby, I love exploring these ideas. I think on this one I thought about vampires.

[Kathandira]

Hmf...you lose the humanity when death goes away.

Says who? Who’s experience do we have to prove such a thing? I get the concept as a philosophic conclusion. But there are no cases to study to prove it.

[Hypasonic]

Being immortal is in and of itself a curse, everyone you get to know and love will eventually die in a *relatively* short space of time, compared to you. Eventually you'll probably just want to die with them but...you can't, no matter what you do you will be around forever, floating in space after the earth gets imploded by the andromeda galaxy in 2.5b years or so. From there you will literally be stuck in the middle of a black hole with nothing but darkness for the rest of your unfortunately miserable existence.
Until, ofcourse, such a time comes when the next big bang occurs and you can *maybe* start to watch the birth of another universe. Unfortunately for you, you have another 9.5 billion years until you *might* be able to somehow get dragged into the nearest gravity of a galaxy of which you *might* be lucky enough to land on a planet inhabited by "lifeforms" that you can atleast engage in.

So yeah, I'll take neither option

[Speaknoevil]

I think I would use the age reversal tech to say forever 10.

After that age is when I started to worry about things, would be nice to maintain a non worry state.

[Ghostpanther]

Nether. I am already going to exist forever.

[grettin]

I think I would use the age reversal tech to say forever 10.

After that age is when I started to worry about things, would be nice to maintain a non worry state.

That's only because you had family to take care of you at that age. You would need them to use the same tech and keep looking after you forever.

[Christan]

Says who? Who’s experience do we have to prove such a thing? I get the concept as a philosophic conclusion. But there are no cases to study to prove it.

human beings / homo sapiens by definition are animals, hence losing your humanity.
though it's more of a 'trans-human' thing, psychologically, at least for a time they would still act human, however biologically at that point you are trans-human.

but heh..semantics.https://www.mmo-champion.com/newreply.php

on topic, i would choose neither, the reverse aging and womb thing both have downsides, as in, i am relying on whatever laws/corporations rulings on if i can continue living at that point, in essence making myself a slave of doing that they want me to do.
heck no.

either of those options if they had an added bit 'reverse aging to the point you're X age then stops it' or womb but being able to eat whatever (but no physical gains other than stopping aging) would be fine.

[Travis B]

I would add a fourth option to the poll: "Neither, I don't want to live forever in the first place"

Death is something I would eventually welcome.

[Will]

What? Living forever sounds shit anyway. You'd get fed up of the world before long, if watching everyone you know keep dying around you isn't bad enough.

[Littleraven]

Option A is in no way living forever so IMO it is invalidated. Option B doesn't sound that bad because if you truly do live forever you could probably get rich just by putting in the work so the cost of the food wouldn't be an issue unless you couldn't afford it in the first place.

[Celista]

How do you come up with all of these hypothetical scenarios?