Ask HN: What would you do if you could live for a 1000 years? I am wondering how we would spend our lives if it became significantly longer, like 1000 years long. Shoot! |
Ask HN: What would you do if you could live for a 1000 years? I am wondering how we would spend our lives if it became significantly longer, like 1000 years long. Shoot! |
Multiply by 5-10x to properly understand the subject matter (it's not fiction I'm talking about). And that's just what's available right now, not counting all the stuff that would keep pouring out while I'm reading.
Along the way, I would obviously want to use my suitably enhanced mind (brain-computer interface, maybe genetic manipulation down the road) to apply what I've learned, and contribute to the subjects I've found most interesting. And go places, obviously - with centuries to burn, the solar system would be well within reach, maybe even the stars.
1000 years is not nearly enough.
At 50, life is already borderline boring -- even another 50 years would be almost unbearable. So another 950 years? Damn.
I'd probably spend most of it counseling younger people not to have too much fun -- lest they lose the capacity for it.
And maybe finish my book. With that much time I wouldn't really have any legit excuses left.
However, for hundreds of years... Living under the capricious whims of often thoughtless people? It'll be torture.