The Curse of Immortality is going into an eternal all-fluid diet. I hope you like the texture of smoothies.
𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 & 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳 𝗮𝘁
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The Curse of Immortality is going into an eternal all-fluid diet. I hope you like the texture of smoothies.
𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 & 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳 𝗮𝘁
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Hum… Probably some 5 to 10 years. Maybe less.
All those philosophical questions about personhood permanence (like the transporter one too) are a joke when compared to how impermanent people actually are.
Your personality changes over time, but there are formative memories that stay with people until they die. You can see it in phobias and other mental disorders very explicitly, but also in favorite foods or cultural preferences or adherence to certain dogmatic beliefs.
Like, imagine if people who came of age in the 1950s were to just live forever ruling over the rest of us and imposing their standards and beliefs generation after generation, with new members only added to the gerontocracy by demonstrating a nostalgia for an era they never even grew up in. Imagine what kind of place that would be like to live in.
I really recommend you look at history because most of those people did not have the values you associate with them back then in the 1960s and 1970s.
The problem with the gerontocracy is not really the inter-generational differences.
Oh yeah. Nobody was suggesting we round up all the immigrants, criminalize homosexuality, segregate people by race, and deny women rights over their own bodies in the 1960s and 70s. And we definitely weren’t cooking up a Cold War with an Eastern Power, or picking fights with left-leaning democracies in Latin America, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa, during this time.
It’s actually totally different now!
Old people were. There was entire movement around it.
Those people weren’t the old ones at the time.
They were. Donald Trump was as much of a racist, sexist, xenophobic shitbag when he demanded the execution of the Central Park Five as he is today. Joe Biden was as committed to the Zionist project under Ben-Gurion as Netanyahu from Philly. Dianne Feinstein was fighting to put the Confederate Flag up over San Fransisco over forty years ago. Mitch McConnell has been fronting for fossil fuel companies all the way back to his days as legislative assistant to Marlow Cook and and campaign aid for Tom Emberton. My man was an aid to Robert fucking Bork ffs. Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl.
These people all sucked back then. They have always sucked. They were the teenagers screaming at the first black students to cross the segregation line after Brown v Board. They were the Vietnamese veterans doing war crimes at My Lai and flying bombing runs over Cambodia on behalf of Kissinger. They were taking money from Walmart and DOW Chemical and Raytheon and Salomon Smith Barney as soon as they were old enough to cash a paycheck. They were at the forefront of the Red Scare and the first in line to bend the knee to Ronald Reagan.
These people have been awful for eons.
I think it depends on the individual. I get gobsmacked at peoples limited memory of history. I find its like 5 but if you one standard deviation over its like 10 and then like 5% its 20 and some small number is likely 40 and then not sure how its like for those folks that seem to be able to remember every detail of their lives. Granted even then its like a feel for who you were and memories of how you handled things or did for particular things you can bring up. Then you have to add in though all that evidence that every time we remember something we have a chance of changing it.