just to outline this fictitious would you rather, you rich enough to retire cryogenic preservation is perfect. you could live out the rest of your life in retirement and see the world evolve “like god intended”, or you can adopt cryogenic lifestyle where you freeze yourself for however long you want and stay thawed for however long you want but your still a human with natural human lifespan so you will eventually die.

of course contingencies are allowed if you think something cataclysmic will happened you can be dethawed abruptly and considering future medicines to extend your lifespan is allowed

  • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If I were to get frozen, it would be on a ship making it’s slow trip to another planet. Thaw me when the next planet is habitable, so I can see something new.

    Oh, and by then I could probably get my consciousness put into some human/cyborg/animal hybrid, so that would be a new experience too. Yeah, otherwise I’m fine with a boring retirement.

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    wasnt that futurama. technically its biologically not possible to do it, because freezing would form ice crystals and damage your cells. maybe for organisms that withstand freezing like this.

  • reksas@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Even if I wanted to be frozen, there is no point. One would have no guarantees that you wouldn’t just be thawed and disposed later so the company can sell more stasis slots. Or if they decide to even try to keep their word, they could maintain your stasis so badly that you would die from that or maybe thaw partially occasionally or something. Unless you are billionaire and could afford somekind of insurance that makes sure nothing happens to you, there would be absolutely nothing protecting you.

    And even if everything went according to plan, society could collapse in such way maintaining the stasis could become impossible due to lack of resources.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Retire, i don’t think I could stand living in the future. I’d definitely love reading a summary of what’s coming up next just before I die though.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    I’d rather retire and die in piece than wake up to an unfamiliar world.

  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Neither, I want to have my brain scan put into a robot and live forever. Or exchange body parts for robot replacements till I’m a robot ship of Theseus.

    If you can beat 'em, join 'em!

    • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Neither, I want to have my brain scan put into a robot and live forever

      I will never be convinced that isn’t a copy. Grod-dang emdot-tu drives don’t have thoughts, Michael!

      Now getting a brain case to be put into other bodies? Sure. Though I would immediately be unrecognizable as a human, not because I’d become some cyberbrute but because I’d be something more like Wall-E(/an ROV) or at times some monolith in a forest tied into the Myconet.

      Maybe humanoid arms, maybe eyes that aren’t cameras, but other than that I’m not sure. Maybe living gel (that assists with homeostasis, bioreaction) though that wouldn’t be obviously human either. It might be the most obvious just when I’m doing some hobby-esque things, or making a mistake and immediately being aware of it.

  • fullsquare@awful.systems
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    3 days ago

    none of that shit works and won’t work for a good minute, cryonics is rapture for nerds that take scifi way too seriously

    what we already know tho is that because there’s one payment to store meat popsicle effectively forever and this shit is ran by true believer techbros, it tends to run out of money pretty regularly. that means they run out of liquid nitrogen and meat popsicles thaw, and this already happened more than once

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Please give me the dignity of death.
    I will not be a slave for an ultrawealthy megacorporation.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      ironically i thought that inspired this would you rather was making IP for Disney and having Disney cryogenically freeze you just to thaw you out to prove your alive so keep the copywrite out of public domain. of course disney would pay for your stasis

  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I don’t believe we have the tech yet, so I’m not gonna trust any such thing, its probabky snake oil.

    But assuming that regulatory bodies around the world has already certified and approved it (meaning the “dethaw” part has already been solved and is working), I would probably skip like 5 years at a time, watch all the TV shows and movies, then skip 5 years, repeat…

    Otherwise, I wouldn’t touch that thing with a meter stick. Snake oil.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    When I thought the world had a future, I would have opted for cryogenics.

    But I am 100% that we are on our way to the big reset button.

    Not necessarily extinction, per se. But a societal bottleneck where a man-made catastrophe throws the survivors back technologically and we have to start the climb all over.

    Getting past that point to the realm of actually achieving the technology necessary to unfreeze me seems unlikely. So cryogenics is just death with a preserved corpse.

    I’ll take death. The sooner the better, lately.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      i see so you’d live in best of times as much as possible instead of skipping to the great reset. i dont think we can get set back that far simple because of GMO of plants and global trade. also refined metals would still exist. a car engine can rust or break but the engine can be melted into farm equipment. so we are safe from bronze age. id say we would be a cross between iron age with modern tech

      • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Are you sure about that?

        Because the thing that most people never consider with “post apocalypse” scenarios is “lubrication”.

        Everything needs it, and for the most part it’s petroleum based lubricants. Chains, gears, wind turbines, cogs, wheels, doodads and whazzits…

        The machines that create power require regular lubrication and maintenance to prevent them from breaking down. Power, is needed to mine, refine and ship the petroleum…

        You see where I’m going with this…

  • Omega@discuss.online
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    3 days ago

    Uh, retire. I bet it’s awful to be transported to the future, where no one knows you personally, and you don’t even know anything in the future.