Google Doc | Comments | Author: Mati Roy | Epistemic status: sentimental piece: inspiration (or maybe despair, your call) (ie. not all factually correct or precise) | Created: 2019-03-31 | Published: 2019-03-31
Evolution hasn't selected for identity preservation. Your memories are constantly being overwritten, and your identity shifts as you age and your environment changes.
Accidents are always lurking. And even the best habits won't stop the aging process.
Cryonics is speculative and unreliable. And the complexity of aging is enormous.
Existentials risks are on all sides: if we don't go out on a bang, we might just go out on a whimper.
And those problems need to be solved by a bunch of monkeys who just invented the Internet.
On top of that, the incentive structure to solve those problems is deficient, and the incentive structure to solve the incentive structure isn't there either. We're fucked on all meta-levels.
Not counting the vast amount of demotivation, lack of caring, short-sightedness, learned helplessness, nihilist sentiments, and sheer destructive feelings. The desire to conform, the fear to change, and the lack of ambition.
And even if the few of us who care figure out all of it in time, we might just be playing a losing game. We might just be in a Universe that is inevitably destined to die no matter what.
With those stack against you, if you really think you can be truly immortal, you are really fucking crazy.
But still. If you don't try, you're just beyond crazy.
Immortality for All. At All Cost.