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[Hanslanda]

You get to exchange the current problems like cancer, aids, famine, war and lack of apace travel for the future problems like super aidsncer, future famines and wars and fighting off aliens?

Anyway, in order to freeze you you have to die (before hand or by the freezing itself), and hope people find a no umbrella way to revert death on good conserved corpses in the future.

It's a lot of gambles. I would bet on uploading your mind(but that probably will only produce a copy of you). Or brains in jars and steem cell you way to immortality.

Well, that's why I mentioned the as-yet fictional cryosleep option. Surely someone will have to invent that sooner or later if we're serious about spreading this human plague throughout the stars...

The stem cells option is intriguing, but as far as I am aware that just involves prolonging one's life, not taking a temporary hiatus from it. Besides, if I was rich enough to buy up on stem cells I could probably afford to chill in a sensory deprivation tank for as long as I pleased to escape from reality, surfacing occasionally for a gourmet meal prepared by my personal chef.
Hell, my usual misery might not be so bad to begin with if I had shitloads of money.

Also, my personal problems don't really include any of those things, at least as far as I'm aware. Who knows, maybe a nice, big war (possibly against aliens!) would be just the thing to give me a purpose in life!
Just unfreeze me when there are alien invaders to shoot.


P.S. as far as I can see you're doing a pretty damn impressive job of looking after your family, given the circumstances. They're lucky to have you.

With brain uploading you run into the Ship of Theseus problem. Is it really you or just a simulation of you?

Your best bet is to make peace with the inevitability of death and enjoy your life while it lasts. /deathist

Also I second that PS, I doubt I'd be doing half as well as Baal is.

[KittyTac]

Meh. I'd rather face the risks of brain uploading rather than face certain oblivion.

[Maximum Spin]

Meh. I'd rather face the risks of brain uploading rather than face certain oblivion.

Good news! Oblivion is certain either way! 

[KittyTac]

Meh. I'd rather face the risks of brain uploading rather than face certain oblivion.

Good news! Oblivion is certain either way! 

By that I mean, I prefer highly delayed oblivion to normal oblivion.

[Hanslanda]

*sails in on a raincloud and hovers over your parade*
It ain't gonna happen in your lifespan!
*rains*

[KittyTac]

*sails in on a raincloud and hovers over your parade*
It ain't gonna happen in your lifespan!
*rains*

How do you know, with the current rate of progress? You can't predict the future.

[Hanslanda]

We'll be dying of climate change and collapsing biodiversity in 30 ish years right? Not much room for researching immortality when you are breathing too much co2 in and there's nothing to eat.

[Gentlefish]

*sails in on a raincloud and hovers over your parade*
It ain't gonna happen in your lifespan!
*rains*

How do you know, with the current rate of progress? You can't predict the future.

I'm afraid that goes both ways. You can't predict the future either, and even virtual immortality is a pie in the sky.

[Kagus]

*sails in on a raincloud and hovers over your parade*
It ain't gonna happen in your lifespan!
*rains*

How do you know, with the current rate of progress? You can't predict the future.

I'm afraid that goes both ways. You can't predict the future either, and even virtual immortality is a pie in the sky.

In the not-too-distant future, a modification of Roblox emerges that allows individuals to upload a complete copy of their neural network to the server in order to live forever. Roleplay is enforced.

A conflicted KittyTac, aware of his increasing burden of years, considers his options...

[KittyTac]

We'll be dying of climate change and collapsing biodiversity in 30 ish years right? Not much room for researching immortality when you are breathing too much co2 in and there's nothing to eat.

Most figures I have seen have at least 50 years, which is enough. If we invent true AI by that time, climate change would not be an issue. Robots do not need to eat or breathe, after all.

*sails in on a raincloud and hovers over your parade*
It ain't gonna happen in your lifespan!
*rains*

How do you know, with the current rate of progress? You can't predict the future.

I'm afraid that goes both ways. You can't predict the future either, and even virtual immortality is a pie in the sky.

I'm not saying that it will be invented. It's just that it can be invented.

[Gentlefish]

Sure, and many, many other things could be invented. But just because it can, doesn't mean it will any time soon.

I, for one, plan on enjoying this life as much as possible. There's no reason to bank on certain technologies being created by the time I'm well-lived and still able to make good use of them.

[KittyTac]

Here's an excellent video by Kurzgesagt on the subject.

[Hanslanda]

I started the Deathism debate again. Crap. *backs out quietly*

[KittyTac]

They usually go about this far before devolving into passive-aggressive bickering.

[Gentlefish]

I love kurzgesagt, and I know it's near-future tech. But perhaps not as near as you think. Retro-Futurism assumed we'd have space colonies by now. And we can. But there's so many barriers that no one is tackling at the moment.

Don't get me wrong, I'd try to be first in line for a real colonization effort. And I'm not saying uploading people is impossible. It's just not likely to happen within the 40 years I'm still good to do those things.