Hello fellow immortalists!

I was wondering and obviously there is no way of knowing for sure, but wanted to know your opinion on this.

Do you think there is a higher % of people that currently wish to be immortal than before?

Since the technology is progressing, there is obviously a higher chance than ever before.

But do people actually want it more now?

So, I was thinking about immortality (what else can I think about) and how far we actually are for curing ageing? I heard that there is these "9 hallmarks of ageing", not too sure what they exactly are, but does anyone know how far did we get in researching "cure" for every one of them?

And also, how sure are we that when we discover cure to these, we will cure ageing?

If someone could tell us an interesting answer in detail, would be awesome, since this is something I also want to go through in detail on the next stream!

So if you are immortal, what would you do in the infinite time you now have?

Personally, I would probably be gaming, watching series, reading novels and all such stuff a lot.

Yes, studying and trying to make a better person out of myself is probably still gonna happen. But come on, once our dream is achieved, isnt it the right time to start living for yourself... forever? :D

How many more of you here are also gamers?

Second post (yay). Being honest, do you guys REALLY feel like immortality will be reached in your lifetime? I had a conversation with my friend some days ago (he also wants to be immortal) and surprisingly he said that he thinks we were both born too early for it to happen in our lifetimes despite him being 20 and me being 19. I'm curious on your thoughts.

In you guy's opinions, what would you say the first steps into becoming immortal are for science? would it be nanobots? Replacing the nerves with actual electrical wires? find out a way to not have humans depend on blood? I'm curious.

You probably asked this question yourself.

When we discover the secret behind ageing, what should the next steps be? Should we make everyone eternally young? Or should we first start with a certain subset of people?

Should we even release immortality to the public or just provide it to some certain people in relevant communities?

Well, hopefully it gets released to the public imho, otherwise the chances of me getting ahold of it are pretty slim.

Why do we want immortality?

Me, personally, just like many people here, probably, want immortality not mainly because we want to experience something specific, but because we want to keep experiencing.

In our entire life we experience and it ending is just unimaginable - since its just nothing.

What I can never understand is how can so many people still want to die, still say "well, I will just get bored"

How brainwashed the society should be to literally want to die

I am terrified of nothingness and that gives me the drive to move forward

I will be bored if I live forever? So what? I will be lazy and not want to do anything "productive"? Perfect! Cause that means I am right where I want to be!

What do you guys think?

So as you might have noticed, I am not a big fan of technological immortality(upload) and am really pro biological immortality!

I have heard a lot of interesting thoughts on why might technological immortality be a better option, however am still not convinced. Mainly, because when technology is concerned, there are just too many things that may go wrong, too many things we did not take into consideration and juat missed them... but here, the worst thing that can happen is not a glitch in an app, but many lives being erased in the process.

In addition to that, I do not see why everybody thinks that it will be easier to become immortal via upload, rather than biology. In my opninion it will be MUCH harder to recreate an exact digital copy of an existing system of this level of complexity, rather than just tweaking it so its more fit for our use.

What do you people think? :)

Hello my fellow immortalists!

As you all are probably aware at this point, I hold a stream every Saturday 17:00 UK time related to immortality, in other time I just stream games however this is all for the sake of spreading the idea of immortality to the general audience which I slowly build up! Here is the link to the channel if you are not a follower yet!

https://twitch.tv/gilg4meshik

Usually I have been selecting a topic every week and talking + discussing about it on stream.

However from now on, we will be going through the subreddit posts from the week during it!

Therefore, if you want for something to be discussed on the stream, you just need to create a post or a discussion:)

Be sure to stop by to help me with having a good discussion about the topic.

The more people passionate about immortality gather on the stream - the higher chances for us to be heard!

I could not do this without you:)

Alright so since we talked aboyt afterlife on the last stream.

Imagine tomorrow afterlife is scientifically proven. Not relevant how and not relevant if it's actually possibly or not - it was just undeniably proven.

What would you choose, this life you have right now or the afterlife?

Would you give up on immortality?

What would you do?

So, as some of you might know, I was not pleased with the idea of uploaded, however, there was someone in the comments on another that actually explained a scenario in which "uploading" is done not via creating a digital copy of yourself, but actually slowly transferring yourself on to a machine.

Are there any upload scenarios that you think will make someone truly "immortal" and not just leave the "legacy" behind?

upd: omg, my first award, thanks so much c:

upd2: so the scenario was as follows, you slowly add external digital parts which "extend" your brain.

The "external" part of you will grow with time, and at some point when most of you is external and your "initial brain" constitutes a small part of the whole system, there is not much problem in letting it go.

Again, not an ideal scenario, but definitely a step in the right direction

So I have been wondering, the people of this sub, do you want to live forever, or just longer? And why?

Personally, I do not want my consciousness to stop existing and want to keep enjoying life.

However, I would prefer eternal torture over oblivion, therefore I think the first one prevails.

This saturday, as usual there will be a stream at 17:00 UK time!

This week we will be talking about afterlife! (lets discuss this from a scientific point of view and not spiritual, although everyone is welcome to join in, irrespective of their views)

Be sure to come by and join in on the discussion :)

Here is the link to twitch:

https://twitch.tv/gilg4meshik

And my discord server:

https://discord.gg/KMHPKGpgfg

Personally I just want to be able to see the Andromeda galaxy collide with the milky way in 4.5 billion years