The last thing you wrote is something I indirectly think about quite a lot. Imagine a place (call it heaven if you want) where time and death don’t exist. What could you possibly care about?
I've watched the show and loved it, and I've heard this compliment before, but only just now have I realized how meta this compliment is.
As I often as I remember I adopt the perspective of someone who's 14,000 years old.
I don't know why I haven't died, and at this point I don't expect to at anytime in the future.
But I don't know I won't - so I'm still careful, and grateful.
But I don't let things bother me, because I've seen it before. And all my plans are long-term, because centuries to me are the same as quarters for you.
It seems crazy, but it's really changed how I think. I got the idea after watching the incredible movie, "The Man From Earth"
The Man From Earth is wonderful. The best ultra-low budget movie IMO.
Simply put, if the human lifespan were longer, we might give less fucks about natural disasters because we've seen them before.
I’m splitting hairs, but aren’t these two separate problems?
If I lived 1,000 years, I’m not sure I’d be able to remember things that happened 200 years ago super well. I can’t remember things that happened 20 years ago very well.
Although I kinda personally believe (more on hope than any technology being available) that we can move to a non biological medium with nearly infinite storage, speed of light processing speed, effective immortality...etc. The only needs would be entertainment and energy.
Of course, we have zero idea if that is even possible.
plushpuffin (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27132468) mentions Greg Egan's Permutation city, and this sort of question is one of his main themes. In Diaspora, Egan explores many other possible answers; my favourite of the possible answers there, and I suspect also his, is that eventually one would occupy oneself with mathematics in such a place.
> Imagine a place (call it heaven if you want) where time and death don’t exist. What could you possibly care about?
Mathematics!
plushpuffin (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27132468) mentions Greg Egan's Permutation City, and this sort of question is one of his main themes. In Diaspora, Egan explores many other possible answers; my favourite of the possible answers there, and I suspect also his, is that eventually one would occupy oneself with mathematics in such a place.
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Competition/drama with other immortals? Competition with past selves? Assuming no memory wipes.
Context switches could be annoying, given the ability to tangent across infinite time or space.