I'm a thousand times smarter than my pet rabbit, I've yet to even try suicide because its patently moronic. If human beings were a thousand times smarter than they are today then there's a high probability that less people will commit suicide as they'll finally be smart enough to realize it's not a solution to a problem.
Human culture is so diverse that even in 1000 years you'd barely manage 5 years in each country on the planet. I mean just look at how different human culture is today than it was 1000 years ago. We're talking the difference between Monarchy and Democracy in the entire western world.
There's no law of conservation of information, there's no finite limit to the amount of data in the universe. It's not like once a thousand books have been written you're stuck with them, there's going to be more and more unique information as the universe ages. A being with an infinite lifespan is going to have a lot of time experiencing all there is for humanity to offer before it even has to create something itself, even then it could likely explore the universe to find another culture to experience. I'm sure if you're going to live forever and spent 10,000 years experiencing humanity, it might not seem too long to take a quick 100 year jaunt to another star system to spend 10,000 years experiencing alienity.
Alan Turing committed suicide, mostly thanks to the pressures put upon him by British society at the time... because he was gay. I sincerely doubt that Turing was a moron. There are many factors that lie well outside the realm of intelligence, that have a profound effect on whether or not people one day decide that they can no longer go on with their lives.
Boredom may very well be a motivating factor, especially for someone who can live as arbitrarily long as they wish.
First, I am afraid of death.
Second, I am mortal and my death is a certainty, there is quite literally no point in rushing it.
So there you have one emotional instinctive reason and one logical one. And I have to agree with you suicide is moronic.
And perhaps 1000 years is not nearly enough time to become bored. But how about 1000 000 years? More?
My question was about the veeeeeeeeeeeeery long run, do you think you'll find life interesting for ever?
If I'm bored today, I might still find something interesting tomorrow.
If I'm dead today, I'll still be dead tomorrow.
Who's read Asimov's "The Last Question" http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Imagine you can live to 1000 or more, at what point does your brain run out of space for memories?
When you're finally out of room in your memory buffer do you just turn it into a FIFO queue? So you could collect a whole bunch of information you like (like favorite books, music, movies, etc) start consuming at one end, forget that by the time you get to the end and start again. Repeat forever.
Alternatively you could expand your mind, you turn into a cyborg or something. See Asimov's The Last Question again.
Or you could stimulate your (possibly digital) brain's please center - forever.
And this leads me to a theory of what happened to all the other advanced civilizations in the universe.
Assume human like intelligence evolves somewhere out there, then:
Scenario #1: Self destruction.
Scenario #2: External destruction, asteroid or something.
Scenario #3 Super-intellect is achieved:
#3.1 Rational super intellect realized existence for the sake of existence is pointless and quits.
#3.2 Irrational super intellect wants to exist rational enlightenment be damned. Irrational intellect expands and expands.
In other words, if some alien species out there advanced enough to reach trans-humanism (or trans-alienism hardi har har har) then it probably also transcended any irrational genetic fear of death and then promptly took a bow and exited stage left.
I guess what I'm saying is you're doomed either way.
Either you are primitive and doomed to die a natural death.
Or you're super advanced and too smart to fear death, then you have something to do for a while but eventually...