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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose?
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    24 days ago

    Meh, even so, do you really wanna be Saburo? Watching your back constantly, watching your kids vie for your seat waiting for you to croak, seeking eternal life through different bodies as some microchip construct knowing basically anyone would smash that shit to bits if they felt they could get away with it to gain power.

    It doesn’t sound that great to me either because I’m not sure even a normal, finite life in such a world isn’t too much already.

    If I had to be someone I’d prefer to be a nomad living out in the desert with my fam, somewhat isolated, rely on each other, far away from corporations and their wars.

    Or maybe I’d be a celebrity living in North Oak like Kerry, but even then, there’s a good chance some cyberpsycho guns you down while you’re out on the town in your snazzy new Caliburn to buy a latte, at last some brief relief from that one fucking ad with the dude screaming.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•You must design an icon for a save function that can be easily understood by anyone in the future. What does that icon look like to you?
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    1 month ago

    How are there so many people ITT who genuinely don’t even understand what OP is asking and are arguing about something else completely that they thought up in their head like whether we should do away with the floppy icon because it confuses people now or if their youngsters know what a floppy is or if they do or if there’s a better icon to us now that can represent saving.

    None of those are anything to do with OP really.

    What OP is asking is if in 10000 years the next human civilization after our collapse that has no concept of computers and probably no electricity or industry nor potentially any grasp on our language or alphabet stumbles upon a functioning computer from our civilization, how do we tell them which button is the save button, when all shared symbolic context has been lost?

    Consider the same question but for radioactive waste, how do we ward off potential future pre-industrial human civilizations from our nuclear waste sites to stop them dying to radiation poisoning for possibly tens of thousands of years until they develop an understanding of radiation and the equipment to measure it? Well, something like this maybe:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

    Though maybe given this thread, we should instead be considering how to convey very simple abstract questions to the pre-industrial people on lemmy.world instead, especially when it appears they have only a rudimentary, GPT2-esque grasp on language.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•If there is no heaven or after life, what is the point of living?
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    1 month ago

    With this ideology, when I stop breathing, I will quite literally become nothing. There will be nothing. I am dead.

    I know. I’m sorry. If it helps, I’ll be the same way too. We’re all in this boat together. It’s fucking terrifying. It’s really pitch black after. Same way as it was before you were born. But we don’t remember that, so it doesn’t help.

    It’s made me lose sleep a lot too and I often wondered what I’m meant to achieve in lieu of devotion to God to make it all mean something or make it all worthwhile.

    Each their own master, no universal judgement, and we all “go” to the same “place”.

    Beyond that, there’s no ties that bind us in common goals or purpose, some guy on the street - he could do literally anything and you’ll both be dead same way one day. CCTV isn’t religion, and police isn’t god, he has nothing to fear and I’ve everything to lose. It’s scary.

    Kinda wish I could be Christian honestly but unfortunately as far as I can tell, I am very literally incapable of faith.

    I’ve not solved my anxiety about death, I don’t think I can, but I’ve made a lot of progress.

    Even without God, there are things I believe in, that matter to me. Why? I don’t really know. I suppose I’m just genetically destined, wired to be that way by chance, but it feels ‘right’ to believe in these things.

    I believe in the maximisation of happiness as a good thing, I want people to be happier and suffer less, and I want to do well unto others and myself in those terms.

    From pushing egalitarian politics where I can to looking after myself and my loved ones and being kind and showing solidarity to others, and obviously not harming them. That’s not meaning maybe, but it’s purpose. Still basically Christian ethics, too.

    Perhaps I won’t be rewarded, but such is the reality of the mortal coil, I have to believe that at least I’ve lived such that the first sunrise I’ll never see won’t be any dimmer by my hand than the ones that greeted me on this earth. Maybe even brighter.

    If that makes their day better, even as just one brick on the road towards oblivion, that’s gotta count for something, right?

    Maybe that’s a reward in and of itself. Even if I won’t remember anything, others will remember something.

    Maybe that’s enough.