Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Will humans eventually live forever? | Vitalik Buterin and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. The question Mr Fridman is posing to Mr Buterin will follow us to the grave---pun intended. Let's first imagine what living to, say, 500 years will mean. This will be a world of multi-parents. Kids will have a dad and a mom and then when they're old enough to leave home, dad will become a grand dad and mom will be grand ma and then dad will be a great grand dad and so on. We'll be interacting with generations of our offspring. We'll be sharpening our skills to phenonmenal levels. We'll be solving problems that could take a century or more to fully understand. Disease will be anaylzed to the point of being able to counter any side effect of any known pathogen. Criminals will be given life sentences, but put in hybernation sleep because the cost would be off-the-charts. It costs, say, 100,000 USD to house one prisoner for a year. If someone gets a hundred years, the cost to society would be enormous. And could we send someone up the river for 400 years, for example? What would a crime like murder be judged for in terms of time behind bars? Mostly though, I think the family structure would morph into everyone being from the human family, which might not be so bad when you think of it. Imagine if you were divorced 17 times and kept dreaming about your ex's every night because of alimony payments! What about friends; forget face book, you would need an separate app just to log into and to help remember all your friends and acquaintances. "Hey dude, wasn't it Jeff? Wo-ah, hey man... it's been what... 250 years since----" Imagine doing the things you love to do for centuries!
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