[rbxplayer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqXBLDyGOjI

... without the fear of becoming feral or big magnets...

[Bobboau]

what does the video have to do with what you said in the subject?

[watsisname]

Lol, longevity.  See you all at heat death. 

I honestly don't know if I'd accept a "cure" for aging or not... for one thing I'm doubtful that after you get over 9000 years old you'd have any memory of your younger life, where you came from, etc.  I'm not convinced that at some point life just wouldn't be interesting anymore.  Then again, you'd get to experience so much future history, and maybe finally get to take a ride on a space elevator.

\o/

[Bobboau]

but Wolverine was not long lived, he only had strong healing abilities, if we were talking Apocalypse then maybe you'd have some sort of point, but no your analogy fails.

I' assume that you would be able to opt out any time you wanted. and you are assuming that there will not be any advances in enhancing memory at any point in the future.

[Kosh]

but Wolverine was not long lived, he only had strong healing abilities, if we were talking Apocalypse then maybe you'd have some sort of point, but no your analogy fails.

Wasn't he born in the 18th century, yet 200+ years later looks like he's in his 20's?

[rbxplayer]

Kosh, thanks for coming to the rescue... Wolverine is shown in his late 30s though

watsisname, actually, Kurzweil has an answer to that worry. In an interview with Glen Beck he explains that the whole concept of life will change. I take the life of my grandmother who when my age, 29, thought she would live till 60. She is now 87 and with her small pacemaker she is still does social work.

With regards to memory, he envisions that we will have nanobots in our brain giving us the ability to easily retrieve our memories. We will also have the possibility to backup our memories; hence his new movie "The Transcendent Man".

All this in 50 years.

[BloodEagle]

I wonder how virtual immortality would affect law related to suicide....

[The E]

Thoughts on immortality:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/thought-experiment.html

[rbxplayer]

http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/index.html#/real-time-with-bill-maher/episodes/0/217-episode/video/217-june-17-overtime.html/eNrjcmbOYC7ULMtMSc13zEvMqSzJTHbOzytJrShRz89JgQkFJKan+iXmpjLns0knlpbkF+QkVtqWFJWmsjGyMXIyMgIAdc8XOA

Long link...

I think the validity of the argument is that Kurzweil focuses thoroughly on Information technology and describes it as the 3rd bridge. Biotechnology being the 2nd. why? because Biotechnology is still pretty much based on trial and error. However, once this breaks into the nanobot stage, where everything is scene as a computer system, the rules of the game change. What if scenarios can be computed faster.

We should not fall in the trap as he says to imagine the future as a sci fi writer would; a futuristic world based on our current views. As technology evolves, so will our way of viewing reality. eg. World before internet vs present.

[Nuke]

no

really i dont like the x men all that much. frankly im getting sick of the trend of live action comic book adaptations.

[Bobboau]

well, the subject of this thread is the cure for age, think about it, no matter how long it takes you could live to see humanity destroy its self, we might one day come up with something even better than nukes, and you would live to see that day.

[Nuke]

you are not ready for immortality [/kosh voice]