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
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.
If you can beat 'em, join 'em!
Hermes, is that you?
My manwich!
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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Freeze my ass right now.
Let’s see if I understood correctly your question.
Get frozen, yes or no?
Retire
It’s a fantasy to me I would be overjoyed to experience.
As much of a fantasy as scifi
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…
yeah I see that. lube would get a big need, but my car runs out of gas several times before I need an oil change and retail stores do carry oil. ironically canola oil and vegetable oil can be used as motor oil. when you run out of oil then things start to grind to a stop.
but machinery would become too costly to maintain and people would stop using it. if a valve broke on a engine I doubt people in the post apocalypses would repair it. unless it was part of a town where people would have both the need and expertise to fix it. there would be easier to maintain alternative of machines that wouldn’t require lube, filters, replacing of metal parts.
after a century an internal combustion engine would become unusable scrape
Only if I can sync up my cryo pod with my wife. I’d have to have someone to share the future with
I have always felt a little out of synch like I was born too early. Not sure I need longer than a regular lifespan, but might consider pausing. The problem is that I have friends, kids, brothers and sisters, don’t think it would be pleasant to wake up with all of them dead or old. So probably not.
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thats why im assuming the science works without any drawbacks. i was thinking that would cool to see cultural slide show, but at some point you’d probably not get reference and you would be able to tell what’s sci fi or what product placement. there would be words that start popping up that you wouldn’t know.
the period pieces of the future will probably be fun like how would they depict the 2020s and 2010s
“dethaw”
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.
This is a great listen if you want to know about what’s going on with cryogenics https://www.thisamericanlife.org/354/mistakes-were-made/act-one-8
I think I’d go the Bobiverse route so I both get to die and be a self-replicating spaceship.
Freeze while robot me carries the torch, unfreeze me for genetic material every now and then
