>>11036773>the world will become a terrible placeMy guy i'm not sure where you're living now but for quite a few people the world is currently a terrible place.
>>11033651What a 10,000 year or even 1,000 year life, hell even a 500 year life would mean in practice is a dedication to a high number of pursuits. I have spent 22 years out of my 34 going through childhood and education, and now I have dedicated 12 years to building a career in lobbying, and it is likely that I will spend the next thirty years bolstering this career till one day I will have amassed enough that I can retire and die in some quiet corner of the world. If I were blessed with a 1,000 year life I would probably work in lobbying for a hundred odd years, then move over into high level consulting (which I may do anyways), and then at 300 I might decide to pick up writing and the arts, and then at 700 perhaps I'd seek to take on a role as a community leader or politician. By the time I was 1,000 I might have had ten or a hundred different careers.
Being an ancient one would be cool and all, but I can help but feel that at some point you'd be out of place and just as we say that previous generations should get out of our way those who will come next are going to say the same, and rightly so. Age is not a determinant of qualification, and being an ancient ought not give us any sway over the youth. But what really is the likelihood that any of this happens? I'm aiming for 2101 myself, though I guess plenty of people thus far have made it to 110 while having grown up with lead paint, smog, and the stresses of harsh manual labor. 150-160 seems like our limit.
What you should be also be excited for is that popsci thought that humans might be one of the earliest species to achieve high intelligence in a relatively young universe, and that we might not only be ancient ones to our own species but our species as a whole may be the ancient ones to the rest of our galactic community.
