Help wanted : Life is short, hate death, want to quit my job and chase my dreams
Hey all, Its 4AM and I'm not able to sleep. I have everything I could want - a great partner, $300k TC and a good lifestyle. I cannot grasp one thing - DEATH. It is the most sickest, cruelest most disgusting thing that can happen to someone. You go through life and then you vanish into nothing - worst part you see so many loved ones go before you. The thought of this disgusting and the most life denying thing possible. I have worried about death from the time I was a young boy and I think about it on a daily. I one day decided in my engineering days that I will live forever. There is no point in going through the motions, getting old and eventually becoming nothing. Over millions of years we have become the ultimate species on the earth, we absolutely cannot squander this opportunity. My ideas on how we can live forever or at least extend ourselves for a few centuries : 1. Our body parts will wither way, best to invent mechanical parts connected to our nervous system. Create a means to supply energy to the brain and maintain nervous system. 2. Integrating with AI : We are actually kind of AIs ourselves tbh in a carbon based body, preprogrammed to like and dislike things such that we keep propogating ourselves. 3. Hacking our DNA so that our cells do not die. Our cells are machines that receive stimuli (input), read DNA and create proteins (output). If we truly learn about the internal mechanisms of cells and DNA, we can code it such that our cells live on forever. 4. OH god, I have so many ideas on this matter. I cant execute it, I am so freaking stuck, dont know where to start. People will think Im crazy. What I am looking : 1. I want a patron, a billionaire ideally although a multimillionaire works too that will help help me pursue research in this field. I swear if someone really helps me out, best decision you ever take in your life. 2. A community that I can discuss this with, regularly meet up and plan together on how to meet our goals. I am willing to give everything up just at a chance to do something in this space. Because at the end of the day none of the TC, promotions I earn will matter. Now that we live in the modern world, wish the world had a collective conscience to only pursue this space. We would make so much progress!!! Hope someone DMs me that can help me out. A decent enough proposition, or even guidance, I quit my job and work for you. #misc #life #death #help
"going through the motions" is the problem. You can do that for 500 years and not live a worthy life. There is more meaning to life that it's limited, live it to the fullest. Tomorrow you'll have another 86400 seconds.
Isn’t point 3 just crispr?
Yes it is. But what’s the point of crisper if you don’t know what to do with it? Human genome has 3b base pairs. You need to know how to tweak the exact pairs in every single cell in your body in order to achieve what I’m asking and not have any side effects.
Have you read crack into creation? I think they’re working on it. Don’t quote me tho, I’m not certain
Evolution has already invented permanent life. It’s called having kids. You and your partner could try it. Short term iterations on a perpetual cycle of learning sound familiar? Or what you kids call it build measure learn 🤣
People only have kids because they can’t live forever, they know the sad truth deep down and hence want to pass something on. Depressing. So stop coping.
OP, you need to be open to these perspectives that people are sharing. We all know we are going to die. This is not a "sad truth deep down". There's beauty in it that we see.
Go to therapy
You should follow Thiel's work. That dude is all about longevity and solving immortality. Unfortunately, despite his billions in wealth, the dude is aging like a raisin in the sun.
You say that only because you work at eBay
Just accept death.
I am 28 and I feel I have seen everything lol, don't want to live forever to see the same shit again and again
There’s life after death. Death is beginning of a transition to a new life. Try spending some time reading about it before you completely dismiss the idea.
Another great point. I've been thinking about who am I? Am I the brain in my body? The answer is no. I am not my body. I'm consciousness. Body is materialistic. So is the entire universe. I think materialistic world is the first world where a conscious is born. I'm sure after I (my conscience) leaves this materialistic world, it will go to next world. I don't know what that world will be, maybe spiritual world?
I would say read about Islam it explains the concept of afterlife. The concept is similar across all Abrahamic religions.
Give me what’s he smokin!!
Just thinking about your loved ones and meaningless of your life is sufficient to get to the point I’m at.
Y’all gonna call me crazy but hey it’s the truth. Think of life when you’re 70 ugly, have ED, don’t have anyone, live in assisted living and can’t do anything