So biological immortality will probably be invented within the next 200 years...

So biological immortality will probably be invented within the next 200 years. What do you think the chances of being alive when it happens are?

50%
either you'll be alive or you won't

Oh yeah I forgot thats how quantum mechanics answers all questions. Thanks user.

0%. We'll be the last generation to live normal lifespans, the next will live mildly prolonged ones, then the next substantially and then their offspring will be designed to be immortal.

If biological immortality becomes a thing, it will be kept underground.

>if you wish for something hard enough it will happen

More literal than you think.

^-^"

>Implying I'm not killing myself tomorrow

See Don't worry about it.

Any serious lifespan modification will probably require major dna changes, that leaves out already born people.

CRISPR, motherfucker.

It doesn't rebuild your body though.

It doesn't have to? Rewrite what stem cells do and you eventually convert everything.

No, you would need highly complex retroviral treatment to edit a live person. That might include a CRISPR stage, but the trick is to edit every living cell since most don't use stem cells to replicate.

Well technological immortality will come first, and I bet we're living to then at least,

Pretty much, take my brain and thoughts and put them in a super computer or something,
Wait until 3d printing imortal biological bodies is possible,

Done

Well sure, didn't say it'd be soon or easy, just that it can happen on principle. Plus, you don't necessarily have to change every cell to get the desired effects, depending on what you're trying to do.

>year 2100
>biological immortality is a thing
>still no cure for baldness

DESU, it'll likely be a bit of both at first.

Let me break this down to a simple question. What is immortality? What does it entail? What are the constraints to attaining such a feat?

2045, it's the singularity bitchesss
source: I'm a top level jew futurist

Subjective continuity of consciousness (memory + personality + awareness) for an arbitrarily decided period of time. This could imply times where "you" don't exist such as when the information describing your being is transmitted across distances in the case of a digitised intelligence. But as long as from the subject's point of view there is not too much internal discontinuity they could consider themselves as being continuously alive.

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>year 3000
>humanity is a tipe II civilization
>still no cure for baldness

Will never happen due shortage of food supply and housing. We need people to die someday.

>Let me break this down to a simple question.
>What is immortality?
You go on living.
Like you know, do not die.
Preferably you don't age too, it would suck to be forever old.
>What does it entail?
How you would make use of your immortal life depends on the person I guess.
user would probably just watch anime and fap for the eternity.
>What are the constraints to attaining such a feat?
We don't know if there are.
Well, one exists: our brain hasn't infinite capacity, one day you will have to forget important parts of your memories.

Honestly how bad would it suck if you died right before that happened? Those guys would probably go down in history as the most unlucky dumb faggot generation who ever lived in the entire universe. Man, that would suck.

>tfw you die 1 month before immorality is made available to the public

Hard to imagine what a genius could achieve if he got to live for 200 years instead of 70 to 80. Also, how would immortality affect heavy drug usage? Could we regenerate our cells so effectively that we could say, be constantly doing meth to become the most productive machines this Cosmos has ever seen, without any side effects?

>Longevity + Productivity

Now that's a recipe to change the world forever.

Better that the entire species should be made extinct than that a single human being should be able to escape by means of such an apparatus.

Happily, the early fits-and-starts will present opportunities for action. The Elect will not become un-gettable beings of pure energy overnight. Moreover, they will remain helplessly dependent on a long supply chain. Only the catastrophic failure of one such node will be needed to drag them back into the merciful bucket of the Void.

If history has established anything, it's this: anyone can be killed.

>You go on living.Like you know, do not die. Preferably you don't age too, it would suck to be forever old.

So do you want the body not to degrade type of immortality, or do you simply want to not lose consciousness forever?

>How you would make use of your immortal life depends on the person I guess.user would probably just watch anime and fap for the eternity.

I meant what kind of immortality you mean specifically but if that's all you truly wanted to do, you would simply need a hand, a dick, a limitless supply of anime,porn, and hentai. You could probably transfer your consciousness to a computer and simply attach a hand with nerve endings as well as a dick with nerve endings if it's simply the orgasmic feeling you want.

>We don't know if there are.Well, one exists: our brain hasn't infinite capacity, one day you will have to forget important parts of your memories.

Once again I was referring specifically to the type of immortality you wanted, but you could simply imbue your memories in a chip and attach it to a computer with your consciousness if that's all you wanted.

That is still a copy and not you. The only possible thing you could do is slowly add machines to your own brain.

play Soma its pretty good

I hate Veeky Forums. I mean, there's the rare interesting thread, but half or more of each fucking board is shit like this spammed over and over like it's funny, except it doesn't have even the modicum of thought that humor requires. There is no joke. It's just a thing. Shitposts are just things. Barely even entities spontaneously brought into the the mind of some idiot. It's like they're the antiparticles to ideas, because ideas are at least demonstrable proof that someone is capable of thought.

You suck. Everyone that contributes to the shit state this place is in and has always been in sucks. You are why we cannot have anything fun, and you waifu is pasty-faced, lying garbage. Who does she think she is, anyway. Steve Jobs? Turtlenecks are for innovators that at least don't get BTFO upon evaluation of their fraudulent business claims. Fuck off, user, go die.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Alive when the first batches are going through?
If you're younger than 30, probably.

Alive when it's legally available in the us? If you're underage browsing, maybe.

Alive when it's cheap enough for the average American making 40k a year to use? Not a chance, m8, sorry.

And that's assuming no WWIII and the next political power in the US not going full retard on genetic research and stem cell stuff.

Lobsters have had it forever and it hasn't done them any favours.

Same with Jellyfish.

It might be that the complexity required for advanced intelligence is incompatible with naturally occurring biological immortality.

Lobster die from their "biological immortality" due to the simple fact they either over exert themselves when shedding or they got no more energy to shed.

It had done them lots of favors, but lobsters get tired and doesn't help their damn things get bigger each time making it harder.

Jellyfish are pretty cool though since they can go on forever until something kills them. (Which is the aim for Humans).

>blaming politicians for funding
If it's actually important (i.e. things that aren't pure math), private funding will be available.

Not funding, the legality.

No it isn't and regardless humans in a state of nature had long lives, 60-70 so long as you survived childhood.

>technological advanced civilization will exist 200 years from now
Wew. Humans probably won't exist

I kek'd

Mentally who could say?
With a longer life span you could go insane in most cases?

The degeneration of the brain is a higher issue. Parkinson's and Alzheimer's need to be cured before we get to that point

We already found that blood from the umbilical cord can help with fighting mental diseases with mice.

It'll take some time, but we're getting there.