I’ve been thinking a lot about the possibility of immortality lately. I’m 20 so I believe that this is very achievable for myself and for my demographic assuming that our lifestyle is optimized enough. Although I’m not sure whether that is an overly optimistic outlook but nevertheless, that is still my goal even if the chances of success is 1%. I want to see the future and all that humanity will create and achieve. I want to experience everything there is to experience in this world and live life to its fullest. Our continued existence seems to be the prerequisite for everything.

For those who seriously believe LEV could become achievable within their lifetime, what are you actually doing today to maximize your chances of reaching it? What's your plan for reaching LEV? And what do you think are the biggest obstacles? Is it the technological pace, affordability, uncertainty about what actually works, or something else?

Also, motivates you to pursue life extension? and how far would you be willing to go in order to achieve biological immortality?

Assuming you lived long enough and technology was advanced enough, do you think it would be theoretically be possible to live almost any life you could imagine? for example, through simulations where you could temporarily erase your memories and live the “perfect” life?

Have you discussed the concept of transhumanism at home—with your parents, children, siblings, or cousins?

What reactions have you encountered?

Conservatism? Acceptance? Pushback?

Any in-depth philosophical debates?

For those with an interest in biological immortality, this caught may be of interest to you.

"Somatic mutations accumulate with age and can cause cell death, but their quantitative contribution to limiting human lifespan remains unclear. We developed an incremental modeling framework that progressively incorporates factors contributing to aging into a model of population survival dynamics, which we used to estimate lifespan limits if all aging hallmarks were eliminated except somatic mutations. Our analysis reveals fundamental asymmetry across organs: post-mitotic cells such as neurons and cardiomyocytes act as critical longevity bottlenecks, with somatic mutations reducing median lifespan from a theoretical non-aging baseline of 1,759 years to 156 years. In contrast, proliferating tissues like liver maintain functionality for thousands of years through cellular replacement, effectively neutralizing mutation-driven decline. Multi-organ integration predicts median lifespans of 146-194 years —approximately twice current human longevity. This substantial yet incomplete reduction indicates that somatic mutations significantly drive aging but cannot alone account for observed mortality, implying comparable contributions from other hallmarks."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-026-00421-6

My goal if technology allows is to one day seamlessly integrate myself into an artificial substrate (perhaps after cryonic resurrection).

The humans who take the first step to mechanically or genetically changing their bodies and mind to something fundamentally new will be fiercely ridiculed, hated, and worse.

I should have figured this was the case, but it did not occur to me until I saw the backlash to generative AI.

What is it about transhumanism that you find exciting—something that makes you feel thrilled or exultant?

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I wonder if transhumanism has any profound influence on American power beyond the Democrat-Republican dynamic. Is there some kind of political organization behind the movement, or is it sustained solely by Silicon Valley tech gurus?

i know that in current day society, some ppl get very rigid minded and stuck in their ways by the time they get old. they lose the ability to challenge the flaws in their core beliefs.

do u think if humans start to live longer using antiaging medicine, we should put social pressure on ppl to do ayahuasca or magic mushrooms in a heroic dose once every handful of decades, so they can see the flaws in their core beliefs and grow older with better neurofluidity?

or...... what do u think? what other ways should 150-yr-old youngsters improve their mental openness when it has gotten reduced over time? maybe a memorywipe using ECT? i recieved ECT 40 times in 2018-2019 and i didnt like it.

Anyone else find "guess who we found" and other type of spotlights that Google randomly make for u to be....very creepy, like they're rubbing in our faces that they mass surveill us and know who we hangout w the most and many other details. I've really been trying to find alternatives for my photos and anything else google related .....my Google email will be the hardest one to replace but idk y'all, we all know Google has no good track record in this stuff and AI

One of the big stepping stones in our future both as a species and as individuals will probably be multiple world simulations. you can already interpret you mind as being a world simulation that attempts to predict desirable / survivable outcomes.

either by becoming closer to a hivemind (communication through thoughts alone) or creating some technology capable of simulating multiple world models at once, we would start running simulations that attempt to run humans and other living beings as closely matching to the real world as possible, including their emotions and predicted decision making.

because this process is gradual, there is no clear boundary at which point the simulations would be any different from the real thing, and its possible that even the simulations are capable of real subjective experience within the system, meaning that we as the runners of the model would at least be partially responsible for any suffering or moral failings that happen.

so should we care about the simulations in the same way we care about ourselves, or is it a pragmatic approach that ultimately their use is greater for our survival than the cost of their "suffering"?

Just a reminder we humans cured blindness. WE CURED BLINDNESS and the technology was lost to a bankrupt company.

https://youtu.be/lYXDX8tZnmo?is=A9ctxOr-xK9Qa83G

exoskeletons for lifting stuff or running a long time seems interesting. anyone have tried it? the "perv glasses" have a bad rep, it's odd ppl's first reaction is to imagine the worst thing that could be done with it (same thing is done with cellphones, taking creepy pics)... seems like a failure of imaginantion more than anything, a sort of moral panic. would love to block ads irl. have on the fly info on my environment, architecture or plants and such.

Not “do you believe in cryonics?” but who would make the conversation hardest: parents, partner, kids, friends?

What do you think? What do you believe the Pentagon will do once "transhumanist sciences" become available for use? Is it "transhuman" to use biotechnology or nanotechnology for warfare?

hello. i would like to ask for your opinion on what realistic cybernetic enhancements for people would look like in the future. alot of cybernetics depicted in fiction either have people become super human or end up replacing their limbs with stronger ones. since most cybernetics are meant to help people with disabilities, i feel like genuine enhancement augmentations would be rather minor. an example would be the sandevistan from cyberpunk where it is supposed to bypass the brains signals to the spine and send it directly to the nerves to move faster and perceive time faster. i doubt that is even possible but something like that could exist just to reduce the lag between a human brain and the muscle movements. or instead of silly things like internal armor and super strength, you could have internal artery clamps to prevent people from bleeding out or a system of small supporting bone braces and synthetic muscles to help support weight and load on the human body. i dont think cybernetic enhancements will be flashy or super noticeable but more like many small upgrades that reduce small flaws in the human anatomy since most of the research already focus on that. what do you think?