Well I'll give this board a try since I have nothing better to do and my feels are coming along.
What is your opinion on human immortality? Human life extension? Some believe the short life span of human beings makes them strive to innovate as much as possible with what little time they have left. We see this in people like Mathmatician John Nash, Computer Enrepeneur Steve Jobs (I refuse to consider him more than a businessman), Bill Gates (I mention him because he cared about what the masses thought of him and his business, so he got heavy into "philanthropy"), even Andrew Carnegie (did the Gates thing) Steel Titan. Lots of famous people.
The question is, would they have gone the same route if they had more "time"? Part of Jobs' rapid advancement in his re-introduction to Apple was knowing he had pancreatic cancer, so he wanted to do as much as possible (hence the joke, PC killed Steve Jobs quite literally). But what if he didn't have PC? What if he had more time and knew it?
Being a depressed bipolar aspie, I'm rarely motivated by anything anymore. At the age of 18 I find myself unable to find the motivation to do anything except be great, or get lots of attention, sex, and drugs. Thats literally all I want. Hedonistic pursuit.
I argue that hedonism will keep us innovating despite longer life spans, because we will want to keep these life styles going, and to keep our stimulation going. We will find ways to overcome being "numb" to things. I hope one day to become a bionics researcher, or perhaps a SENS researcher, to give myself more time to shitpost and fuck robo-waifu.
this is an "opinion" thread with some logic thrown in there, no need for hard evidence if you don't want to provide it, but at the same time don't be a fucking retard. I'm just looking for opinions with a little bit of logic. Shitpost pls go.