The 500 year old question

[Freddie1980]

Two words, compound interest.

Wait long enough and you'll be able to afford a meal at the restaurant at the end of the universe

Reminds me of Red Dwarf when Holly wakes up Lister after 2 million years in stasis and tells him became the most hated man ever because he left £9.50 in his bank account and thanks to compound interest he owned all the money in the world.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Of course it could all go horribly wrong with nuclear wars man's greed and stupidity

Yes, but you could always end it yourself if things got grim.

 

[Sheff]

I'd say yes, I think that would give me enough time to actually be good at playing guitar!

 

[Fubsy]

Even without the answers to a lot of the "depends on..." conditions, I definitely would.

In theory, you could maybe squeeze in 6-7 completely different lives, taking your experiences from previous ones into the next and make different choices that you made previously. Kind of like a 'New Game+' mode.

 

[Kelt]

Main problem would be avoiding people who wanted to lop your head off with ancient swords.

 

[MoRT489]

Is this making anyone else think of the guy in The Simpsons with permanent hiccups - “‘hic’, kill me, ‘hic’, kill me”

Would there be some way of bringing people along with you, like biting them on the neck or something? I’m sure I’ve seen that work somewhere

Off course yes, why would anyone say no.

To those saying I don't want to see x y and z die.. well there will be many more new people you can meet and will have all the time in the world to do so.

There’s a good chance that you’ll see x, y and z die in a normal lifetime anyway!

You may come to see other people as disposable and that would dehumanise you
Other people would know this and avoid you
You'd be an oddball as your attitudes to everything would be out of sync with everyone else

Like Elon Musk…

 

[MoRT489]

Even without the answers to a lot of the "depends on..." conditions, I definitely would.

In theory, you could maybe squeeze in 6-7 completely different lives, taking your experiences from previous ones into the next and make different choices that you made previously. Kind of like a 'New Game+' mode.

Imagine how good you’d get at saying “no”!! That’s a skill you only really learn as you get older

 

[Fubsy]

Imagine how good you’d get at saying “no”!! That’s a skill you only really learn as you get older

Indeed, it does, however a lot of that comes from knowing where saying "yes" leads you. I love, but equally fear, the process of time.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

Absolutely.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

its a trap, government would be out to get you, they not gonna want to pay 400+ years of pension out to you.

 

[ZG002]

Main problem would be avoiding people who wanted to lop your head off with ancient swords.

There can be only one.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

its a trap, government would be out to get you, they not gonna want to pay 400+ years of pension out to you.

Exactly, I get my state pension in May and I'm pretty sure there would be markers against us as we reach milestones.

 

[dowie]

No I don't think so. While it would be interesting to see what happens over the 500 years I don't particularly think I'd want to be in a cycle of watching people I'd come to care about slowly die off in a weird cycle. Also unless it comes with an unlimited money hack I don't want to work for 470 odd years

There's a pretty obvious money hack already just by the fact you'd be living to 500.

 

[dowie]

You can actually sign up if you're rich enough to pretty much live 500years or more. Just freeze yourself for a 100 years at a time only being unfrozen to live for say 5-10 years to see progress, then back in the fridge you go. Cryogenics will be a major player in future long distance space travel too so it too will become a matured technology.

Not yet you can't, no one has been frozen for even say a couple of weeks and then woken up again yet let alone 100. Current cryogenics is carried out on people who have recently died and is taking a long shot bet that there will be some way of both repairing them in that recent dead state and fixing whatever damage the cryogenic freezing has caused to their cells too.

 

[Trifid]

Eventually you will not need to chase money, you will have sufficient in 50 years of working.

Maybe, but 450 years is a long time and being irrelevant when you did run dry is significant. I'd want to de-risk this entirely as the thought of centuries in poverty sounds like torture.

 

[Quartz]

If you could live for 500 years(in good health without aging/as you are currently) would you want to?

In good health? Then yes. It's going to be wonderful to see humanity develop. Sure there'll be a big war or two but humanity will recover, rebuild, and progress. My only fear is that I would turn into Rees-Mogg.

 

[mrk]

Not yet you can't, no one has been frozen for even say a couple of weeks and then woken up again yet let alone 100. Current cryogenics is carried out on people who have recently died and is taking a long shot bet that there will be some way of both repairing them in that recent dead state and fixing whatever damage the cryogenic freezing has caused to their cells too.

That's right now, just like all tech and medical advances, in a hundred years time do you really think they will still be at this level? Certainly not, but you can sign up and be frozen when the time comes There are loads of private companies doing this right now, a quick google shows them all too.

 

[!bluetonic!]

Yes please. Once my family have snuffed it, I would enter the adult film industry to be the 400 year old guy nubbing a 20 year old female or two..

 

[dowie]

That's right now, just like all tech and medical advances, in a hundred years time do you really think they will still be at this level? Certainly not, but you can sign up and be frozen when the time comes There are loads of private companies doing this right now, a quick google shows them all too.

Well yes, of course, it's right now thus "not yet you can't", no one is questioning that companies exist offering this service the problems already mentioned still exist and it's still a long shot at the moment. Kinda moot if it works out for some improved process for people undergoing it in 100 year's time as that doesn't necessarily mean dead people frozen using the current tech (and with the damage caused etc..) will be able to be revived then.

So will they be at this level in 100 years time - obviously not. But there's a big difference re: some 100 years in the future, able to freeze and revive people tech vs being able to undo what has already been done in the present now. We might well have solved ageing by then, doesn't necessarily mean we can bring people back who are currently frozen.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Well yes, of course, it's right now thus "not yet you can't", no one is questioning that companies exist offering this service the problems already mentioned still exist and it's still a long shot at the moment. Kinda moot if it works out for some improved process for people undergoing it in 100 year's time as that doesn't necessarily mean dead people frozen using the current tech (and with the damage caused etc..) will be able to be revived then.

So will they be at this level in 100 years time - obviously not. But there's a big difference re: some 100 years in the future, able to freeze and revive people tech vs being able to undo what has already been done in the present now. We might well have solved ageing by then, doesn't necessarily mean we can bring people back who are currently frozen.

I blame Science Fiction films