I’ll start off with one, Being upset about a breakup that happened hundreds of years ago.

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  • Heath death of the universe, Death of the sun, etc, does not count. I feel like focusing on this is an overused point.

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  • Loneliness does not count. I feel like we all know immortality means you’ll miss people and lose them.
15 points

Boredom after some period of time, you will have some everything there is to do.

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You get to pursue all of the really niche crafts. Things like clock making and random complicated stuff like that.

I don’t think one could ever be bored with enough curiosity, and the means to pursue it.

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9 points

That’s really a valid point.

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Being asked your birthdate in order to view a game on Steam, and the year dropdown not going back far enough.

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Date pickers that assume you have a 5 digit birth year.

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Or not being able to play a board game, because it says “ages 9 - 99” on the box.

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Worse still, no manual entry of the birth date, so it takes ages to scroll down and select the year.

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The Sun will eventually fry all life on Earth and boil off the water & atmosphere. Eventually the Sun will die out completely, leaving you on a cold, dark rock.

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Once with no atmosphere and the sun going nova, there’s a chance of the rock getting obliterated. With a nice boost you might fly off to another planet eventually. Might not be inhabited or even inhabitable, but hey.

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I think I’d have enough time to build a rocket…

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6 points

You’d have Musk-levels of wealth before long, so maybe.

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Friends, family, and lovers dying before you.

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Depends on the type of immorality. Do you continue to age? If no, what age do you stop? Eventually the universe will die. So what happens to you then?

It might be fun for a while. Maybe even a long while. But that fun will be gone in an instant compared to the trillions and trillions of years you will float in a dark dying universe of nothing.

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Presumably you will advance along with humanity though, or failing that, just figure out the transcendence thing yourself with so much time?

I don’t think anyone would choose to stay ‘meatbag human’ for trillions of years.

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Nothing forever will feel oh so fast when you lose any frame of reference.

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