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12508191 No.12508191 [Reply] [Original]

>Study math, engage in intellectual pursuits, die at 80
>Party, spend time socializing, have lots of sex, live life only for entertainment, die at 75
Are those 5 years at the end of life really worth it? Unless you're both tremendously lucky and tremendously intelligent, the intellectual pursuits you engage in won't stand the test of time. You have no idea how many 145+ IQ scientists have been essentially forgotten.

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12508199

why not both?

>> No.12508205

>>12508199
>die at 75
>die at 80
Why not both he asks

>> No.12508212

>>12508191
did you just make up some numbers?

>> No.12508216

>>12508212
Duh, that's what science is

>> No.12508219

>>12508212
Yes, roughly average lifespans.
Are you saying that you believe both will live roughly the same amount of time? If so, idk, intellectual pursuits seem like just a way of avoiding interacting with the world in front of you?

>> No.12509335

>>12508191
This picture is not accurate

>> No.12509626

>>12508191
This is irelevant.
>Study math, engage in intellectual pursuits, die at 75
is preferrable to
>Party, spend time socializing, have lots of sex, live life only for entertainment, die at 75
, aka living the life of a pig. Sure, both lives can turn out inconsequential, but the former will do so with certainty (unless inbetween the partying you happen to be a good parent), while the latter might not. Let me rephrase that.
>Consume so dopamine goes brrrr, die at 75, have your descendants live in mud huts until some meteor hits them
>Learn, create beauty, take pride in it, die at 75 or later, leaving behind an emergent entity to carry out your will beyond the grave that will in all likelihood cease to exist someday, but in any case put up a worthy figt
>>12508219
Idk, hedonist escapism seems like just a way of avoiding interacting with the world in front of you?
Note that the content of "the world in front of you" is rather arbitrary and depends on where you currently point your attention. The stars above can be just as much in front of you as your glass of sedatives.

Anyway, you do you, so I may abuse your predictable stimuli to have you unconsciously further my own goals.

>> No.12509704

>>12508191
Don't study something you hate because you think it will make you happy. The only reason to go into academia is because you enjoy it, unless you have some lofty goal like curing cancer, in which case you will lose out to, you guessed it, the people in your field who actually enjoy the research.
Nobody does that shit to live longer. The stress of pursuing tenure probably takes years off your life.

>> No.12509707

>>12508191
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

>> No.12509730

Both lifestyles are undesirable.

I intend on living to my hundreds.

>> No.12509742

>>12508191
A candle that burns twice as bright burns for half as long.