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
Let’s see if I understood correctly your question.
Get frozen, yes or no?
When I unfreeze myself, will the 93 cents in my bank account accrue interest and give me over 1 billion dollars?
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.
Yes, but society has moved past the use of money and established a socialist world government.
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Yes, but inflation will outpace your interest.
monkeys paw: USD is no longer used
being rich is not the solution to rising ocean waters, fascist dictatorships and weapons stockpiling.
stop idolizing billionaires. they’re garbage human beings.
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
lol i dont expect to solve problems witht this would you rather
Retire
It’s a fantasy to me I would be overjoyed to experience.
As much of a fantasy as scifi
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If I could flip a switch and just stop my life like turning off a tv I’d do it immediately. Extending it?! Sheesh
I don’t want to die, but I don’t want to live.
I just wanna be a ghost floating around, watching everything. Like watching a TV show with real characters, real emotions, deaths are real and no “Somehow, Palpatine Has Returned” shenanigans.
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.
Only if I can sync up my cryo pod with my wife. I’d have to have someone to share the future with
Ask me this a couple months ago and I’d have opted for freezing me, no question. But I lost my person, and I’ve realized it’s not that I was afraid to die or that I wanted life to go on forever. I wanted the life I had to go on forever. That’s gone now. I’ll opt for the end date on the tin.
Hmmm would be weird to enter a new world with nobody you know and at best descendants (or Young family members that remember you) that care about you. Yeah I guess if you did enter the freezing chamber you’d be giving up anything that made you happy now
it’s only going to get worse from here. in another millennium all this will be under water.
When I thought the world had a future, I would have opted for cryogenics.
But I am 100% that we are on our way to the big reset button.
Not necessarily extinction, per se. But a societal bottleneck where a man-made catastrophe throws the survivors back technologically and we have to start the climb all over.
Getting past that point to the realm of actually achieving the technology necessary to unfreeze me seems unlikely. So cryogenics is just death with a preserved corpse.
I’ll take death. The sooner the better, lately.
i see so you’d live in best of times as much as possible instead of skipping to the great reset. i dont think we can get set back that far simple because of GMO of plants and global trade. also refined metals would still exist. a car engine can rust or break but the engine can be melted into farm equipment. so we are safe from bronze age. id say we would be a cross between iron age with modern tech
Are you sure about that?
Because the thing that most people never consider with “post apocalypse” scenarios is “lubrication”.
Everything needs it, and for the most part it’s petroleum based lubricants. Chains, gears, wind turbines, cogs, wheels, doodads and whazzits…
The machines that create power require regular lubrication and maintenance to prevent them from breaking down. Power, is needed to mine, refine and ship the petroleum…
You see where I’m going with this…
I don’t believe we have the tech yet, so I’m not gonna trust any such thing, its probabky snake oil.
But assuming that regulatory bodies around the world has already certified and approved it (meaning the “dethaw” part has already been solved and is working), I would probably skip like 5 years at a time, watch all the TV shows and movies, then skip 5 years, repeat…
Otherwise, I wouldn’t touch that thing with a meter stick. Snake oil.
it’s not solved, it’s just companies saying that they think it will be solved in the future
“dethaw”
Freeze my ass right now.
Uh, retire. I bet it’s awful to be transported to the future, where no one knows you personally, and you don’t even know anything in the future.
Most days, I wish for another asteroid.
Humans have plagued this planet too long.
I think I’d go the Bobiverse route so I both get to die and be a self-replicating spaceship.
