First Draft Club

last day to answer the /firstdraft question:

“what’s one belief you changed your mind about in the past year? what sparked the change, and how has it influenced your perspective?”

share to /firstdraft — can be a blog post, a long cast, or a regular cast. 

best responses get some of my $200 Warpcast rewards!

“what’s one belief you changed your mind about in the past year?"
I used to think if given the chance to take an immortality pill, I wouldn't take it. I didn't want to be live on forever. However, I've changed my mind over the last year. I now think I will.

"what sparked the change?"
These are all hypothetical musings still but I realized there will be ways to _move on_ even after said pill, if one were to choose to do so. Human lifespan seems incredibly short on a universal time scale and there's no reason for it to remain so. Longer, potentially infinite, lives are inevitable and moving on will become a choice rather than a necessity.

"and how has it influenced your perspective?”
Made me more optimistic. Feels like humanity is just getting started. I am still pessimistic on the timeline of hitting this milestone i.e. I don't think it will necessarily happen during our lifetimes (hype cycles underestimate the trough of disillusion). However, I do think that given time, we will hit infinite lifespan.

working @ /neynar   🪐  casting @ /rish

- science moves forward 
- given species has evolved to survive, it’ll continue finding ways to survive for longer 
- if man and machine merge, that changes lifespans

"longer, potentially infinite lives are inevitable" very curious to know why you think so

Many would say you’re already immortal. Infinite universe, infinite timeline, likely we already figured it out.