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Re:Anti-Aging Startup Raises $116M With Bezos Backing by forthefuture on Thursday October 27, 2016 @08:00PM (#12811595)
It might be unthinkable to someone in the future that we could experience the universe meaningfully in 100 years.

I tend to see human-lifespan rationalizations as simple fatalism. It's okay to think you'd get bored after a million years, but dooming every living human to die because you'd be bored is kind of insane if you think about it.

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Re:Anti-Aging Startup Raises $116M With Bezos Backing by aaron-lebo on Thursday October 27, 2016 @08:05PM (#12811636)
> I tend to see human-lifespan rationalizations as simple fatalism.

But you are very mortal and you are at most a few decades old. Your perspective would probably change drastically in your third century or millenia.

It makes conjecture like this as good as worthless because as mortals we do not have the ability to see it from another perspective.

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Re:Anti-Aging Startup Raises $116M With Bezos Backing by forthefuture on Thursday October 27, 2016 @08:09PM (#12811660)
> Your perspective would probably change drastically in your third century or millenia.

I'd rather have that opportunity than not.

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Re:Anti-Aging Startup Raises $116M With Bezos Backing by pointytrees on Thursday October 27, 2016 @11:43PM (#12812859)
I wholeheartedly agree.
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