just to outline this fictitious would you rather, you rich enough to retire cryogenic preservation is perfect. you could live out the rest of your life in retirement and see the world evolve “like god intended”, or you can adopt cryogenic lifestyle where you freeze yourself for however long you want and stay thawed for however long you want but your still a human with natural human lifespan so you will eventually die.
of course contingencies are allowed if you think something cataclysmic will happened you can be dethawed abruptly and considering future medicines to extend your lifespan is allowed
Please give me the dignity of death.
I will not be a slave for an ultrawealthy megacorporation.ironically i thought that inspired this would you rather was making IP for Disney and having Disney cryogenically freeze you just to thaw you out to prove your alive so keep the copywrite out of public domain. of course disney would pay for your stasis
Oh good one. That sounds like a nightmare.
Would make for a great short-story!get frozen and end up in some hell-scape like idiocracy
none of that shit works and won’t work for a good minute, cryonics is rapture for nerds that take scifi way too seriously
what we already know tho is that because there’s one payment to store meat popsicle effectively forever and this shit is ran by true believer techbros, it tends to run out of money pretty regularly. that means they run out of liquid nitrogen and meat popsicles thaw, and this already happened more than once
I’d rather retire and die in piece than wake up to an unfamiliar world.
Neither, I want to have my brain scan put into a robot and live forever. Or exchange body parts for robot replacements till I’m a robot ship of Theseus.
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Neither, I want to have my brain scan put into a robot and live forever
I will never be convinced that isn’t a copy. Grod-dang emdot-tu drives don’t have thoughts, Michael!
Now getting a brain case to be put into other bodies? Sure. Though I would immediately be unrecognizable as a human, not because I’d become some cyberbrute but because I’d be something more like Wall-E(/an ROV) or at times some monolith in a forest tied into the Myconet.
Maybe humanoid arms, maybe eyes that aren’t cameras, but other than that I’m not sure. Maybe living gel (that assists with homeostasis, bioreaction) though that wouldn’t be obviously human either. It might be the most obvious just when I’m doing some hobby-esque things, or making a mistake and immediately being aware of it.
I wish I had the confidence in mankind’s future to consider cryogenic freezing…
The global seed vault in Norway is north of the arctic circle as a way of offering preservation insurance and predictable, controlled, frozen temps for food sources and biodiversity. It’s constructed deep underground in permafrost.
I was reading a book about refrigeration’s impact on the food supply last year and at the end the author decided to visit. The day of her visit it was closed due to emergency at the main gate; meltwater was flooding the entryway. Meltwater North of the arctic circle.
I think it’s much more likely you awake when the power goes out because MicrosoftAlphafacebookXDisneyP&G needed more power for a new data center and you couldn’t afford a politician to keep your town’s power.
If the power goes out, you don’t wake back up. This ain’t fallout 4. If the power goes out, you’re a corpse. We don’t have a way to thaw human sized creatures that doesn’t involve ice crystals rupturing cell walls, and organs. The only creatures that seem to be able to do it, either live at the poles in water, or are tiny. Even then, most of them aren’t mammals.
yeah i was thinking about that. like would you wake up in a dictatorship or a time with way more problems than now
Wake up being yelled at by a lawyer for interrupting his masturbation session during “Ow! My Balls!”
Just a minute, baitin.
Can we freeze someone else? I think we could fix things tbh.
When I unfreeze myself, will the 93 cents in my bank account accrue interest and give me over 1 billion dollars?
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Yes, but inflation will outpace your interest.
monkeys paw: USD is no longer used
Yes, but in the future, something as simple as a tin of anchovies can cost nearly this much.
you would need a alien-lobster race coming in 200 years to eat up all the anchovies first.
Let’s see if I understood correctly your question.
Get frozen, yes or no?
wasnt that futurama. technically its biologically not possible to do it, because freezing would form ice crystals and damage your cells. maybe for organisms that withstand freezing like this.
If I could flip a switch and just stop my life like turning off a tv I’d do it immediately. Extending it?! Sheesh
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Unfreeze me for a week each year. I get to spend a day catching up on what’s happened, mourning the dead, and then a few days exploring what’s new, and then a day planning next year’s excursions.
If I were to get frozen, it would be on a ship making it’s slow trip to another planet. Thaw me when the next planet is habitable, so I can see something new.
Oh, and by then I could probably get my consciousness put into some human/cyborg/animal hybrid, so that would be a new experience too. Yeah, otherwise I’m fine with a boring retirement.
monkey’s paw: its a slave planet where all that inhabitants are forced to work and all computers are repurposed to generate AI images
Sounds like earth to me
Retire
It’s a fantasy to me I would be overjoyed to experience.
As much of a fantasy as scifi
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Only if I can sync up my cryo pod with my wife. I’d have to have someone to share the future with
being rich is not the solution to rising ocean waters, fascist dictatorships and weapons stockpiling.
stop idolizing billionaires. they’re garbage human beings.
lol i dont expect to solve problems witht this would you rather
Op said rich enough to retire. That is defined as having enough money to not work again, not worry about food, medical, entertainment, transportation, being able to take a couple vacations a year and travel how the individual wants (maybe that’s by first class on Delta Airlines, maybe it’s just by driving), not having to go into a nursing home and getting treated like crap when you can’t live alone anymore.
Being rich enough to retire is different then being ultra wealthy as a billionaire.
the premise is freezing yourself with passive income. “so you can retire” is bullshit. OP means become wealthy. you’re a billionaire apologist and you should be ashamed. banned from my instance.
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that. You’re reading stuff into it that just plain doesn’t exist.
On a side note : reading through your history is quite the experience.
Bye
