Playing MMOs gives me a sense of emotional accomplishment that single player videogames does not.
Playing videogames competitively against (or in teams) with other people also is far more satisfying as well.
I have found my purpose in life—do my part to make the human race and (to a lesser extent) the Earth essentially immortal (i.e. catastrophe-proof and generally self-sustaining).
#3 is such a big problem that I can’t hope to attack it directly—I simply focus on improving productivity and technical innovation in such ways as I can, and I spread the gospel of ‘the asteroid will not care how clean the Earth’s water is’ to people who consider technical degradation as an acceptable strategy for human survival.
(For example, in the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still, Klaatu claims that ‘if humanity dies, the Earth survives’, which is such a pile of horsecrap that I still shake my head in wonder at the ‘faux-long-term’ thinking it represents.)
Now, let’s say that in the future, #3 is solved—humanity is essentially immortal, as are the creatures of the Earth. What then? Well, in that case, find a way to remove the ‘essentially’ from that equation. After that? Dunno. One thought would be: Find a way to edit your memories and place a copy of yourself (or some limited version of yourself) in a simulation of the Earth in the far past, so you can see how you’d live, love and learn in a more primitive time.
Some quick observations:
Playing MMOs gives me a sense of emotional accomplishment that single player videogames does not.
Playing videogames competitively against (or in teams) with other people also is far more satisfying as well.
I have found my purpose in life—do my part to make the human race and (to a lesser extent) the Earth essentially immortal (i.e. catastrophe-proof and generally self-sustaining).
#3 is such a big problem that I can’t hope to attack it directly—I simply focus on improving productivity and technical innovation in such ways as I can, and I spread the gospel of ‘the asteroid will not care how clean the Earth’s water is’ to people who consider technical degradation as an acceptable strategy for human survival.
(For example, in the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still, Klaatu claims that ‘if humanity dies, the Earth survives’, which is such a pile of horsecrap that I still shake my head in wonder at the ‘faux-long-term’ thinking it represents.)
Now, let’s say that in the future, #3 is solved—humanity is essentially immortal, as are the creatures of the Earth. What then? Well, in that case, find a way to remove the ‘essentially’ from that equation. After that? Dunno. One thought would be: Find a way to edit your memories and place a copy of yourself (or some limited version of yourself) in a simulation of the Earth in the far past, so you can see how you’d live, love and learn in a more primitive time.