He examines the fictional character Elina Makropulos who lives for 342 years and becomes profoundly bored and detached from life.
That is a surprisingly low number.
I haven’t read the story, but based on the Wikipedia description she had to keep a job all that time? Okay, I can imagine centuries of rat race to bore someone to death. When I imagine immortality, I imagine freedom to follow your interests. Now I wonder how realistic that is.
I guess, if we get an AI powered utopia, then human work will probably no longer be necessary.
In case that AI progress stops before singularity, but we still get immortality through more or less ordinary medical progress, I hope that people after certain age will be able to retire, or at least switch to a part-time job.
That is a surprisingly low number.
I haven’t read the story, but based on the Wikipedia description she had to keep a job all that time? Okay, I can imagine centuries of rat race to bore someone to death. When I imagine immortality, I imagine freedom to follow your interests. Now I wonder how realistic that is.
I guess, if we get an AI powered utopia, then human work will probably no longer be necessary.
In case that AI progress stops before singularity, but we still get immortality through more or less ordinary medical progress, I hope that people after certain age will be able to retire, or at least switch to a part-time job.