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saging is for faggots. FUCKIN AGE

No, but I don't want to go bald and I am.

Yes.

If I for some reason live till 40, someone please come and fucking shoot me.

No. I fear nothing.

Not so much afraid, but hate the thought of it.

I'm a bit of a 29yr old Peter Pan!

>>8666897
liar.

I'm scared of ageing in the sense that I'm scared of being closer to death, but I'm not really scared of the effects of ageing.

Even from a normalfag perspective, men retain their worth into middle age so I don't see why someone on /jp/ should worry about it. Unless they want to be the little girl that is.

I've been thinking, maybe I'll kill myself once I hit 50s or 60s, if I don't do it earlier.

Yes. This thread is killing me.

>>8666885
Yeah op. I wish to be a cute little girl forever. Next question?

I'm afraid of everything ;_;

>>8666904
Being a manchild =! being peter pan

you will also never be a little girl, any of you

>>8666907
Maybe he means he literally fears nothing. The eternal abyss of space is scary to some people.

>>8666885
Yes, to death.

I have been thinking that maybe i should immortalize myself while i was young. Then kill myself by OD or something. So kind of sid vicious deal. Then i'd be cool guy forever even if i wouldn't know it afterwards.

No.

My hair is going white, even though I'm just in my late 20's, but I actually prefer it this way.

>>8666926
Peter pans are pretty much manchildren, dumbass.

>>8666913
It's a problem if you'd rather cast off this annoying human shell and become a god.

I'm hoping to make enough money to freeze myself until we have the technology to turn me into a loli.

>>8666913
> men retain their worth into middle age
That's true and there are plenty of examples of older men who are still healthy/handsome/whatever. However we are not those kind of people. I am in my twenties and I'm already suffering from male pattern baldness. The second I eat anything, I get fat. I can barely stand up I'm so weak. Obviously these are from my lifestyle choices, but I'm not going to change and they're only going to get worse.

>>8666946
No need. According to this trustworthy-looking fellow, we will develop medicine to significantly retard ageing within your lifetime. Then in your (extended) lifetime, we will find some way to revert it. In fact this chap famously claims the world's first 1000-year-old has already been born.

You can be the little girl. It may take centuries, but we can get there if we try.

>>8666946
Unlikely. Technology will probably develop into brain uploads and you can be a little girl virtually and live in cyberspace and can possess a typical mass produced robotic body when you need to interact with the real world.

Yes

Only because I'm a pedo and my youthful looks attracts <13 yo girls like crazy.

Too bad I'm too scared to do anything about it, but it feels great nonetheless and as long as I'm young I still haven't yet 'missed out'

>>8666966
A fucking nobody with a neckbeard, whatever man. Captcha was ntcabr religion. Only someone with the brain of a BR huehue would take this like a religion.

>>8666967
/jp/ is for people who would like to become little boys, not little girls.

I'm really afraid of aging. I wish I knew someone that would belittle me and treat me like a immature kid for the rest of my life.

>>8666967
This. Drop all cancer/environment/whatever funding and research, focus entirely on neurology, robotics and virtual reality. We could easily set it up so babies are placed into an immortal virtual reality in our life time. Earth could be a giant server hub ran by a few robots or human surgeons. We could do this in this century if we tried. Then problems like disease, famine, poverty, overpopulation, underpopulation, war, rape, war rape, etc. would all disappear.

Fuck you, world governments/scientists.

Not really. Not really looking forward to it, but it's not really that big of a deal. I mean, people get old all the time - always have, always will.

Come to think of it, sometimes it actually feels nice knowing that even when you're on a winning streak, you're still on a time limit. Serves as some nice minimal motivation to get things done if you don't think too much about it.

>>8666980
He has a PhD from Cambridge for writing a book.

After being a wizard for five years, I will promptly head to Gensokyo to avoid aging.

>>8666983
I can't wait till being able to program becomes a skill you're born with, like speech is.

>>8666987
It's kind of hard to do sincerely to a grown, bald, disgusting, ugly old man with hair all over his body and wrinkles all over his face. You'd have to find somebody who's absolutely crazy/deluded. Or I would, at least. I know people can act, but that's not enough for me. People don't act when they belittle kids and call them kids.

>>8667035
That depends on how much input to our brains we give the system. If we develop the ability to "program" people's brains, that would be very controversial. Sure, being able to learn how to paint in two seconds flat is great. But who ADMINISTERS that knowledge? What if they start tinkering with our thoughts and feelings? What if the system grows self-aware and decides to make everyone insane?

I can see a cause for programmers in magical virtual reality land, but that's about it. Nobody really needs to download knowledge and abilities, because we live in a virtual reality where we can do anything anyway. If you insist on not being a hedonistic NEET and doing actual programming work, have someone BrainMail you SICP or something. After all, you have an eternally long life to read it in.

>>8667050
You mean I'm not the only one who feels this way?

Also, I regularly epilate and pluck all unnecessary hair and use medical skin treatments to keep my skin supple and smooth. So some of that wont be a problem.

Now, we're all in the servers.
We notice through our telescopes in the real world that a huge comet shall impact the Earth in a year.
What does one do next?

>>8667095
Make backup of people going to be affected by the crash, place backup on ship or safe area, fly to safe area, nearby planet or even the moon, let crash happen, let the dust and water settle, move data back or send repair bots first. I'm sure if we can jam a gorillions bytes in a piece of metal and plastic today, we won't need much space to place the entire human race.

Aging is probably my worst fear. The thought of death never really bothered me; it's kind of a relief, I guess. But getting old fucking sucks. I wasn't brilliant to begin with but already my mind is going. I forget shit all the time and it takes twice the time to memorize things anymore. If I make it to 50 or 60 I'm probably going to need help just to fucking function.

>>8667123
>space to place the entire human race

Sick rhymes dog

>>8667095
This is why we keep some humans as humans, or we have some sort of presence on Earth through robots.

>>8667150
Even supposing we do have humans, and robots, what will we do?
And how do we compensate the humans for their job of not uploading themselves?

>>8667175
What? I don't quite understand.

I already feel too old. Japan has taught me that I've missed my youthful spring flags.

The thought of getting any older terrifies me, fortunately I can barely keep track of time. I usually can't remember how old I am without counting from my birth date.

>>8667123

I think you underestimate how much data the brain can hold. Multiply that by 7 billion, you gonna need a fuckton of storage and more for backups.

I'm starting to feel my age now, back pains and shit, I'm 27 close to wizard status now. I just hope that when I die it comes quick and clean and before I age so much that I can't wipe my own ass after taking a shit.

I've always wanted to grow out a long flowing wizardbeard. Waiting till I'm around 30 or so and I'll never shave again.

About the only aging thing I have to look forward to I guess.

Only with regards to health concerns, not ageing itself. I feel very pessimistic about health and medicine and always fear the worst. Even for really simple things like getting a blood test done, I'm like "why go through this when I'll just die anyway."

>>8667214
> I think you underestimate how much data the brain can hold. Multiply that by 7 billion, you gonna need a fuckton of storage and more for backups.
Don't worry--just keep a few Taiwanese slaves alive, and drain the world's water to prevent flooding.

>>8667214
It might just be my imagination, but don't you think it'll be a good idea to streamline most of the data in a human brain for better storage? For example we wouldn't need most of our brain data today for anything in the virtual world in the possible future. The most we'd need is our personality and sense of consciousness. Everything else can be centralized in larger databanks where we can "learn" what we need and trash what we don't (like if you had to learn how to operate and drive a huge ship in the real world for a few weeks only). Heck, we don't even need to learn how to walk, drive or any of the misc trivia we hold in our brains now. If we need some kind of knowledge, get it from databank. And it'd be for free, of course. Buying and selling data just creates personalized data stores which create more useless repeating data, requiring more real world hardware, more space and then there's always the data sharing "pirating" issue.

Of course there'd be people who want to store lots and lots of data in themselves and not just learn and forget everything, but it won't be everyone.

>>8667255
This is why I think we should take the brain-in-a-vat route. It would require real world maintenance, but at least it will stop stupid debates on the VR forums about whether we're truly alive or just machines.

>>8667255

Fuck you, I hate cloud computing. Also, I can't wait for the lawsuits that will come when people start pirating skills, memories and knowledge. You can just download a legal library memory and rhetoric skill before you touch anything else in case you get caught.

>>8667272
Did we put our brains in another vat when our brains were already in one in the first place?

>>8667281
Capitalism doesn't suit cloud computing. Communism will probably start to sound a lot better for that.

>>8667254

I wonder why Taiwanese?

This is starting to sound a lot like Cortex Command.

Captcha: neopest Cinco

>>8667291
Urgh, I meant Thai. orz

It's not aging, but becoming unable to move. Going blind, deaf, Alzheimers, breaking bones like twigs...

>>8666934
Is it just like one of your japanese animes?

>>8666934
I feel you. I have had a patch of grey hair since my teens, not sure why. Though it looks pretty cool and has served as an icebreaker once or twice.
Maybe all my hair will go grey and I can spike it up and look sugoii~!

>>8667404
>Alzheimers
This one's not so bad because you forget you have it.

Yes, I'm pretty damn scared of ageing a thread when it's not an interesting comment. Such as this one.

What really sucks about "uploading" your mind is that you, the original you wouldn't be able to live in the computer, it would be a copy.