Do you expect to die?

[Mouthwash]

Seriously. Do you think it is possible, within your own timeframe, to live indefinitely? Cryonics, maybe, or regenerative medicine?

If you're going to say yes because you believe in an afterlife, don't. It isn't death in any meaningful fashion to outlive your body.

 

[Phrossack]

I expect to die, yes. And I shudder to think of a world where people can prolong their lives to 150, 200, 500, or more years.

 

[Mouthwash]

I expect to die, yes. And I shudder to think of a world where people can prolong their lives to 150, 200, 500, or more years.

What makes 80 years optimal?

 

[Goodfella]

I don't expect technology will prolong my life indefinitely but I don't think about death. It's not something that's actively on my mind and even though I know it'll happen, it doesn't seem real.

 

[Kennigit]

What makes 80 years optimal?

80 >= 150?

 

[Bugfatty300]

Someday but first I plan to live my entire life before that happens.

 

[Kennigit]

Anyways to contribute, I think in like 30 years people will desire quality rather than longevity

Eg get a surgery to chop off you leg and entire replace it with a prostetic (or is ot prosthetic-- spelling) rather than get a knee surgery or artificial knee or whatever.

Arthritis? New hand. Fractured bone (the elderly have lots of fractures statistically afaik)
? Replace it

I think that might be more widely successful than some future tech of lab grown organ transplants, etc etc

I think the current hope of some is to prevent neurological deterioration by finding methods to stimulate tissue/neuron/whatever growth and stability when damaged. We might hit a limit with messing with organic junk. And i for one dont want to extend my life greatly if I dont have the mental capacity or, for myself, fairly controllable physical quality

I dont think median age of death will break 100 when I die. No basis for that though

 

[Loppan Torkel]

Of course. We all die sooner or later, whether we believe in an afterlife or not. There's no chance we will live indefinitely due to technological advancement during this generation.

 

[Goodfella]

What makes 80 years optimal?

80 might not be optimal but 150 or 200+ certainly isn't. We'd have politicians in office with century long tenures and imagine if the people who owned slaves were still alive. People should live and die in a reasonable time frame to make way for others.

 

[SoupJuice]

Having seen multiple people face mortality in the past year, I know I will die and I want to die. I can't live forever. Without death, life doesn't mean much.

 

[Tahuti]

I expect to die, yes. And I shudder to think of a world where people can prolong their lives to 150, 200, 500, or more years.

Well this. I feel people just need to die eventually.

 

[Perfection]

Yep

 

[Daw]

What makes 80 years optimal?

Neurophysiology.

You're being born with all your neurons in place and you can't have more. Ever since there are 2 parallel processes: a) neurons build connections like crazy and b) neurons die out one by one and faster with time. When they build connections, you get level-ups in thinking/learning and creativity. But when a neuron dies, all its connections die with it and you loose [part of] your wits.

When you're young, you have enough neurons to build connections faster than loose them. When you're getting older, the processes of building up and dying out are balanced. Next there is an inevitable decline causing you to forget what you once knew and making your thinking sort of rigid and new ideas harder to understand (if at all). Next you're either dead for whatever reason or still alive but hardly smarter than a potato.

If you're able to live up to 200, you're simply likely to be unconscious for the last 30 years or so, and also on an artificial respiratory for the last 10 years.

 

[LamaGT]

I think it's likely there will be the first age treatments within my lifetime. I wouldn't mind living 200 or more years personally, though maybe it won't be possible.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

If you're able to live up to 200, you're simply likely to be unconscious for the last 30 years or so, and also on an artificial respiratory for the last 10 years.

Zombies are people too.

 

[Daw]

Zombies are people too.

[skipped lengthy text about similarities between elders and infants, and voting rights, and the effect of the combination onto social tensions]

Never mind until current life expectancy is extended at least 1.5 times.

 

[Goodfella]

Edit: Wrong thread.

 

[Mise]

No Mr Bond, I expect you to oh wait.

 

[bathsheba666]

In the near term, not unless I ask a cop why he wants to see my id.

In the medium term, I'm already getting to the point of decrepitude where an infinite prolongation would not be fun unless they could repair or rejuvenate a bunch of stuff.

 

[LoneRebel]

Someone beat me to the Bond joke.

I expect to die, yes. I do not believe that technology will advance far enough within my lifetime to enable functional immortality. Ray Kurzweil does not expect to die, but I think he's being a little too optimistic. I believe the technology is certainly possible, but it will not be achieved within the next hundred years or so. So maybe not immortality for us, but for our grandchildren or great-grandchildren. That raises the question of whether it's even a good idea.

It just occurred to me that besides cryonics or regenerative medicine, another kind of "immortality" could stem from mind uploading. But I don't know if that fits your definition, and mental uploading technology probably won't be developed within the next hundred years either.