WYR? 3

Would you rather live one 1,000-year life or live ten 100-year lives?

  • one 1,000-year life

    Votes: 13 76.5%

  • ten 100-year lives

    Votes: 4 23.5%
  • Total voters
    17
Queen M

Queen M

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It depends on how it works. Would I have to get born and live as a baby 9 times while having an adult mind? Would I spend 900 years as a world-famous freak of nature getting studied all the time because I'm the only one living that long?

 
Woot said:
It depends on how it works. Would I have to get born and live as a baby 9 times while having an adult mind? Would I spend 900 years as a world-famous freak of nature getting studied all the time because I'm the only one living that long?
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you'd live ten 100-year-lives casually remembering random things from your previous lives at specific times in your life. Think a long case of deja vu.

As a 1000 year old, you'd age very very slowly. Or age like a vampire then just randomly die some time after your 1000th birthday.

 
hmm, how long would you be in your prime for the 1k option? Would it take you several hundred years to become fully grown?

 
Assuming one remains the same age (so to speak) and just randomly dies off at the thousandth year, I'd take the 1k years

 
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Queen M said:
you'd live ten 100-year-lives casually remembering random things from your previous lives at specific times in your life. Think a long case of deja vu.
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Barely sounds any better than just living once and dying. With a memory wipe and completely different experiences they'd basically be different people with little connection to me.

How much would you pay right now to know that you'd lived 9 lives before and to start randomly remembering small moments of them?

 
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Yeah I feel like I've already lived a few dozen 60-year lives in the past. It's not a bad deal so far, so I'll take it.

1000 years seems like a curse when you're living 400 years with a bad back. I assume that things like strokes and lost body parts will happen, so that means I'd probably be seriously crippled or cyborged by 300 years.

 
Kayser said:
hmm, how long would you be in your prime for the 1k option? Would it take you several hundred years to become fully grown?
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Lordship said:
Assuming one remains the same age (so to speak) and just randomly dies off at the thousandth year, I'd take the 1k years
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If you live the one life for 1000 years, you age 100 years every decade. So you'd die when you were 100 (but really you're 1000).

 
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i'm interested in change over time and i'm fascinated by how much society has changed in my lifetime so i'd be interested in the insights of seeing whole eras come and go

or maybe i'd be depressed by how little things seem to change and how much people forget

they do say that you tend to form your political opinions around 20 and more or less stick with them so maybe i don't want to be stuck with a set of political views for 800 years

 
I don't think it would be that profound though. If we had extra time, it would just seem to pass by faster.

Like we live many times longer than cats and dogs now, and we have a higher level of consciousness than them. But is it really a blessing or a curse? We just see the cat and dogs territorial fights as really trivial while we worry about bigger things like Trump presidency and climate change. Sometimes we even envy the cat who lives happily as a pet.

Even if we became more significant, like 1000000 year old planet eaters, it would just make everyone else relatively trivial and we'd still have to worry about bigger things.

 
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