Do you want to live for 1k years?

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Would I like time to seem to last longer than it does?

Undoubtedly yes. Life is too short.

Extending life arbitrarily to 1000 years would lead to some very strange outcomes. Presumably reproductive cycles would stay the same length. This would cause an uncontrollable population boom. It would also mean that you’d be living at the same time as your grand-grand-grand-[...]-grand-children. The family dynamic would become totally different, and I’m not sure that would be a good thing.

I think this comes with certain expectations that for 3/4 of those years you'll be able to live better than an 80 year old today. We really should define our terms before asking such questions.

Definitely not. One of the things that makes existence tolerable for many of us is the assurance that it is ending quite soon.

Although I can see why people would choose to stick around for much longer. I suppose one legitimate reason to live for 1k years is to satisfy one's curiosity about the future and see how it all turns out.

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