>you will probably live to be at least 70 years old
>even if you are as old as 35 right now, that's over 12,783 days,
>or 306,792 hours
>or 18,407,520 minutes
>or 1,104,451,200 seconds
>no matter how hard you try
>no matter how badly you want it
>no matter how many dicks you suck
>you will never
>for even ONE of those BILLIONS of seconds
>you will never be a little anime girl with a group of little anime girl friends doing cute anime things together
How do you live with this, /a?/
>>140736182
By not thinking about it.
Thanks, asshole.
When I was in the 10th gradeabout 10 years agowe went to some medical research lab and they told us our generation would live to be over 130 years old. Somehow, I doubt this.
>>140736182
>>you will probably live to be at least 70 years old
Not with my ancestral lifespan. Both my grandfather and great grandfather died of heart attacks before 70. They weren't even unhealthy.
>>140736409
That's science prediction for you, events are always right but timeline is always wrong. Look at Orwell, only 30~ years off, pretty good compared to everyone else.
>>140736542
Be glad you won't have to suffer a billion seconds of not being anime, anon
I hope I at least reach 70 before working myself to death, seriously.
Oh OP, how could one have so little faith in the advancements of technology? Strong VR / mind uploading is not that far away. Then we can be as anime as we want.
>>140736542
Do daily 30 minute running and you will life till 80.
>>140736182
at least you got the board right this time
>>140736264
This and hoping for better technology. Just think about how much the internet improved life, the next step are VR waifus.
By the time you are 70, VR will be advanced enough to be a little girl. With luck, life spans will increase too so you have at least a couple decades to enjoy it.
>>140736409
I don't believe this shit, almost everyone over 60 I know dies of cancer. If anything people seem to have shorter lives than the generation before them unless they didn't die in the war and shit like this.
![[HorribleSubs] Ushio to Tora - 25 [720p].mkv_snapshot_12.03_[2016.03.31_18.17.49].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ssAB7EX.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Ushio to Tora - 25 [720p].mkv_snapshot_12.03_[2016.03.31_18.17.49].jpg")
>>140736710
>mind uploading
It's too bad that won't help the you that does the uploading. I doubt a continuous, single entity consciousness will be anything more than science fantasy until long after we're all dead.
>>140736182
I'm placing my hopes on neural virtual reality and Moore's law.
>>140736182
Nobody gets to be a cute anime girl though
>>140736182
Stop reminding me.
>>140736923
I'm sure that somewhere someone will come up with a way for us to finally become the cute anime girls we always wanted to be some time within the next 30 years.
Just hang in there and don't lose hope.
My dreams are always 2D or some 3D/2D mix. There should just be some technology that allows lucid dreamers to communicate and that can just start or end lucid dreaming whenever you want so that shit won't wake you up if you want to keep dreaming.
Hell, almost nothing depresses me more than seeing the dreams disappear into nothingness when I slowly wake up each morning.
How about hypnosis? I want to try it but I'm not sure if it'll be worth the money or time to try it.
>>140736791
This train of thought is a pet peeve of mine. "You" are not your cells. Cells change all the time. "You" is nothing more than a pattern. As long as the pattern is copied perfectly, nothing of value will be lost.
If you're a meat-human, and you've uploaded your true self onto the internet, and you want to continue living because you're squeamish about termination, that's your own neuroses getting in the way. The intelligent way to do this is to ensure the meat self never regains consciousness after the upload is complete.
Continuous consciousness is not a big deal. That's something you give up every time you go to sleep. You don't freak out about it because it's normal, and you're used to it.
>>140737460
But the copied "thing" would rather be an emulator that could run your soul in the VR in that case. Your soul would need to switch from the body it resides in to the VR emulation.
Astral stuff kinda feels like that. It's probably just imagination but it happened a few times to me. Would be great if VR shit would feel so real.
>>140737460
I fail to see how this train of thought is anything more than wishful thinking. Copying yourself doesn't automatically "transfer" your consciousness. If you have twin siblings who act exactly the same and have the exact same experiences. If you kill one, the other doesn't automatically inherit the consciousness of the other, because they're still two seperate entities with two seperate brains, even if they're exactly the same in every way. The only difference between this and a "mental upload" is that the twins exist at the same time. Trust me, I'd hope that it worked how you described, but I just can't believe that it's that easy.
>>140737460
>>140737627
What fucks me up is if what if you upload your consciousness to a server but you still die? A program is merely acting as you that thinks it is you. As retarded as an example it is, that scene in The Sixth Day where the bad dude creates a clone of himself with all his memories, but before his current body dies, where he thinks his consciousness will transfer he watches his clone step out and continue the fight without him. I know this is a clone example in a consiouness discussion but the thought still fucks me up.
>>140736264
This. Thanks a lot OP you fucking spic.
>>140737460
>>140737627
>>140737881
I know it's /v/ shit but Soma dealt with this. The main character uploaded himself to a computer to escape the apocalypse, and at the endyou wake up and you're still sitting in the machine and it says the transfer was successful. Your character just copied himself instead of transferring himself, as he thought he would, and the game ends with the version you played as dying, and you take control of the copied version for a bit. The copied version thinks it was a success and that he transferred himself over. It's really trippy.
>>140736182
You have to believe anon. Science finds a way.
At least I can keep watching anime and playing vidya to negate/forget about this. The moment I go totally blind or somehow permanently unable to do so is the moment I will kill myself.
>>140738043
And it's extra funny because people killing themselves just as they get copied because they think it will magically make them "transfer" from their physical body to the computer and live forever is a plot point in the game, just like this guy is thinking right now.
People just can't seem to comprehend that they, the entity that exists right now, would never experience that digital world. A copy of them that thinks it was successful will exist, but you're never going to experience it.
>>140737460
Alright buddy, you go ahead and kill yourself the first chance you get to use a teleport or mind-uploader because you think "Continuous consciousness isn't a big deal, I'll just close my eyes and when I open them again I'll be in the cyber world, living a perfect life! It'll be just liking going to bed and waking up the next morning." I'm sure your copy will really appreciate it when he's living in that virtual paradise. Actually he won't appreciate it because he will stupidly believe he's the original and that your plan worked.
"Consciousness" has more than 1 definition by the way. It can mean things other than just being awake and you should probably learn what those other meanings are before you call other people stupid because you don't understand which definition they're using.
>>140737881
This is something that always fucked me up when I was thinking about teleportation. What if you actually die the moment you teleport and the other end of the teleporation route just re-creates your body, memories and consciousness so the new clone is basically exactly you but you are still dead and the clone doesn't know it.
The bad thing is that you could never be sure what it is. You could step into the teleportaion portal and would only notice it the second you die but just a second later another you would be there that would think "I didn't die. I am still the same me".
>>140736182
Fuck off, you pathetic fucks. You can interact with your waifu or any anime character you want, that technology exists but it's being hold back by the government. Why do you think the UN is treating 2D character with 3D rules? I don't think we will ever be able to change ourselves but you can still do cute things with anime girls just nothing lewd in the future because the UN are faggots, can't say much but this shit will be released within a couple of years so stop fucking chimping out on an anime imageboard.
![[HorribleSubs] Koukaku no Pandora - 01 [720p].mkv_snapshot_05.09_[2016.01.12_21.09.06].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/YD6QAPQ.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Koukaku no Pandora - 01 [720p].mkv_snapshot_05.09_[2016.01.12_21.09.06].jpg")
Fuck your shit I'm gonna be an immortal cyborg lich in the body of a cute little girl. I just have to live long enough and have enough money.
>>140738591
Depends on what manner of teleportation it is. If it's like a star trek one that disassembles your body, sends your atoms out as radio waves and reconstructs them at the other location, then yes you totally just died and all the machine did was create a clone at a new location using the same pieces, which erroneously believes itself to be the original and to think the teleportation worked perfectly.
If it works with wormholes and is tearing and pulling space itself to allow you to basically skip distances, then there should be no reason to worry.
>>140738745
Your autism welfare will never be enough to afford it. I also doubt you live a healthy enough lifestyle to last particularly long even by modern standards.
![Hyouge Mono - 01.mkv_snapshot_14.12_[2016.02.05_12.17.22].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xAPt8ci.jpg "Hyouge Mono - 01.mkv_snapshot_14.12_[2016.02.05_12.17.22].jpg")
>>140738745
>100 year old lolis could be feasible in the future
there is a god and he is great
>>140736335
>nothing is waiting for me
I wish I was a cute anime girl.
>>140738043
The .hack//CELL novels were a bit like that.
The feMC believes to be another game coma case but in the end the actual person is really just in a coma in a hospital while the in-game character is just a copied AI of her. She only realizes this after she wanted an offline-meeting with her best in-game friend.
>>140736182
It's called VR faggot. When I merge with the singularity the first thing I'm doing is going straight to Asahigaoka and becoming Renge, then moving on to being different anime little girls with different groups of little girl friends as I get bored or live out my story arcs in whatever worlds I'm in, taking periodic breaks to have 10 day long sex sessions with 20 iterations of my waifu at once (becoming my waifu to be fucked by futa versions of my waifu and the like as my fancy sees fit).
>>140738795
Jokes on you, I'm a wageslave
>>140736182
Well there's always next life. Save up your karma
>>140738931
What would you do if you were a cute anime girl?
>>140736182
I don't. At least, not for much longer. I'll join them soon, in the world beyond.
>>140738931
Everyone does. It's only natural.
>>140739085
Kill myself, since that would be the best moment in my life and everything after that would just pale in comparision.
>>140739085
something involving dicks i guess
>>140739085
Find and get raped by an Onee-sama.
I'll get my dose of cuteness when I finally have a daughter that I can headpat and cuddle.
>>140739048
Well it's still likely that that technology will never exist (let alone in your lifetime) or that if it did, that you could afford it.
>>140739160
But anon, you don't need to be a cute girl to do that. You just need to be cute.
>>140737855
The way I've seen the procedure theorized to allow an actual continuous transfer of your consciousness rather than just making a copy of it is connecting your brain to an electronic neural network one neuron at a time, connecting an electronic neuron to all the places where an organic one connected up and then killing the biological neuron. In this way your consciousness will retain its continuity as you fully experience your consciousness being transferred bit by bit into the machine, meaning that there will be a point at which your mind is part electronic and part biological where your consciousness can freely move between the two systems. By this method, once the last neuron is killed off to be replaced by the last electronic piece, your consciousness should have experienced complete continuity while being transferred to a new physical host so that nothing like this >>140737881 could happen.
>>140737855
>Copying yourself doesn't automatically "transfer"
>This discussion on /a/
Long story short: Copying something, inside a computer, means transferring the data to a new "location" and leaving a copy behind.
>>140739205
I hope I get a cute daughter too.
>>140739121
Souji only cares for twintails, he doesn't care for becoming the little girl.
>>140739027
Dreaming the dream
>>140739205
>>140739487
>tfw you're gay.
>>140739116
But we need you anon;_;
>>140739027
That won't happen and you know it.
>>140739345
Well the consciousness somehow gets transfered already if you consider that our cells are completely replaced every 7 years or whatever it was.
>>140739085
Find the nearest cute anime girl and become friends.
>>140739766
Neurons are not replaced.
Holy shit so many replies. A lot of people thinking that there's something magical about consciousness. Basically, believing in souls. In the current year. Even if that's not what they think they're doing, it's kinda what they're doing.
Being alive is merely the state, wherein your pattern is awake and thinking. Being dead is the state of your pattern being out of operation, not thinking anywhere. You can be dead, then alive again, if technology allows. You can be alive in multiple places at the same time (though they will start to diverge eventually). If there's another copy of you, you can "die" without ever being dead. All without anything of value being lost. There's nothing magic about life and death. There's nothing dangerous about uploads and teleporters. The pattern is all that matters.
It really makes me wonder what the future is going to be like, if everyone here, even a bunch of nerds, are so squeamish about this now. Is this going to continue? Will younger people be okay with it, while older people complain? Is uploading going to be our rock music? Are uploaders going to be seen as degenerates?
>>140739865
>people like these browse /a/
>>140739865
No retard, we just don't want to die because we can understand that an identical clone is a separate entity from ourselves.
>>140739766
Exactly. Ship of Theseus doesn't matter as long as you have continuity. And sleep doesn't count as a genuine break in continuity, you still have lower-level brain functions constantly going on to connect all your moments of consciousness together.
>>140739865
Normalfags somehow like the way real life is, at least as long as they're healthy. They would just use this technology for extended social everyday's life activities. They already fucked up the internet and turned it into reality 2.0.
The shows are wish fulfillment. If your wish was fulfilled, what would your purpose be then? Pure hedonism?
Not much better than shitposting on image boards about Chinese cave painting.
>>140740023
>Pure hedonism?
Yes. I'd be the biggest slut I could ever imagine.
>>140740023
Stupid dumb existentialist scum thinking struggle has any inherent meaning unto itself. If all your wishes were fulfilled, happy is what you'd be, faggot (especially if we're talking about a virtual consciousness where you can just turn boredom and complacency off so that an experience remains novelly engaging forever).
>>140739085
Be smug all the time.
>>140739487
If we do an ultrasound and find out that my daughter isn't an anime girl then I'm aborting it.
>>140740103
>If all your wishes were fulfilled, happy is what you'd be
I seriously hope I am being baited here and you don't actually believe this.
>>140740079
You and me both, anon.
>>140739160
Isn't this gay?
>>140740159
My sister in another life.
>>140740158
See the second part of my post where complacency is removed as an issue; it's only because we get bored of our wishes being fulfilled that we wish for more, remove that and you can revel in what you have forever with the joy you had in your first moment of possession.
>>140736182
I pretend to be a cute anime girl over the internet.
>>140740140
Wouldn't that require impregnating an anime girl in the first place?
If you are still you, would that make your child a half anime?
>>140740103
Some this. The point is that VR would give you endless more options. What I really want are the possibilities, not a certain thing.
>>140740234
You'd need to pretend to like cute anime boys in that case.
>>140740234
I pretend in real life.
By joining my army's tank corps
>>140739865
>if you aren't as stupid as me you believe in souls LOL
Just kill yourself buddy. Don't worry I've got a machine that will create a clone with all your memories, so you should have no qualms about ending your life right now, so you think you'll just put the bullet in your head and then suddenly wake up in my machine.
>>140740293
Are you saying cute anime girls can't like other cute anime girls?
>>140739865
This is the most retarded thing I have ever read on /a/.
>>140736793
>Moore's Law
It's over anon, we can't shove more transistors into things. Blame physics.
>>140736718
And then you lost a shitton of time running... Might as well have died earlier but done something with that time instead.
>>140740079
>>140740159
Count me in too
>>140736182
>>you will probably live to be at least 70 years old
lol no
>>140740181
No because you'd be a woman
Well let's theorize, obviously if you tried uploading your mind to something, you'd "die" in the upload, and it'd just be another you. It's not the same as sleeping But what if there were a way to transfer your consciousness directly? Your consciousness is purely electrical impulses, that's "you". The meat in your skull is just meat.
It doesn't seem completely farfetched that, given decades, we could create the tech to directly stream those electrical impulses, your mind, into another source, like electricity running through a wire. Your stream of consciousness would never be broken, and it wouldn't be a copy, it would be a clean and direct transfer of your exact current brainwaves.
The transfer would be trippy as fuck though.
>>140736542
>mfw my mom's side all lived to 80s
>mfw my father side didn't went past 70
It's going to be a genetic roulette.
>>140736182
>>140740561
Why would you want to live to be 80? You won't remember anything and your dick won't work. You'll be wearing adult diapers and eating applesauce like a retard
>>140736182
>You will probably live to 70 years old
No OP. You forget to take in account the fact that I'm going to kill myself way before that age.
Life isn't worth living
Anime-tier cuteness can exist in real life. If you ever actually had a daughter, you'd see her as much more adorable than any 2D girl. Because your physiology would actually adore her for being your offspring.
Seriously though. Anime imitates an actual natural process.
>>140740603
But what if the technology to turn people into cute anime girls comes out the day after you kill yourself?
>>140740601
My grandmother is 87 and she doesn't use diapers, smoke and eat fatty and sugary shit. I'm not even joking.
You can grow older healthy.
Meanwhile both my grandparents from my father side dropped dead at 54(Cancer) and 62(Sudden Heart attack in the middle of a surgery) respectively.
>>140738902
>>140740601
Not everyone gets dementia, staying healthy keeps your dick working and viagra exists, and you only wear adult diapers if
1) You're REALLY fucking old, like 90+
2) You had minor bowel issues in the first place exacerbated by age.
>>140736182
Perhaps some day some one created from my memories will. If I can't I hope I can at least let someone else experience it.
Even if it is just a copy and you personally will never experience the virtual world, I think it's still worth it to make that copy. Because think of how happy and grateful your mindclone would be. It costs nothing to you, but you'd be helping out somebody in the future a ton. And who can you possibly sympathize with better than your own copy?
Easy. I write about a new little anime girl with a group of little anime girl friends doing cute anime things together.
It's my way of delaying the pain.
>>140736182
How long do you figure it'll be before we upgrade /a/ to a high-tech VR environment where everyone is a cute little anime girl living in a big /a/ apartment complex or neighborhood and we do cute things together andfuck each other and use some sort of algorithm to map our little 2D pussies and clits to parts of our cocks so we can properly feel pleasure
>>140741833
That first part is pretty close. We just need some program that works with one of the various VR headsets coming out in the next few years where we can design cute anime girls.
The second part is a bit further off do the the involved nature of integrating nerves and machine. You could maybe get some sort of assisted onahole, but I would probably just stick with a regular one.
>>140740550
I'm still not sure I'd trust it. Physically removing your brain, hooking it up to a computer and putting it into some kind preserving system still feels like the only surefire way to experience a virtual world for a period of time long exceeding human lifespans without dying and being replaced in the process.
>>140741833
Technically speaking we could do that today, but it would require multiple anons to put in actual effort to develop. There's also the hurdle of getting large quantaties of anons actually using the software.
>>140741833
I don't want to live with you annoying faggots. You're alone for a good reason.
>>140742047
Okay, enjoy being limited to your gross 3D body
>>140740550
I could've sworn the ability to synchronize two previously isolated human bodies already exists.
http://www.caltech.edu/news/social-synchronicity-37695
Maybe it's an automatic process when two clones are within proximity?
>>140741959
I guess with our current tech it's doable but only with a low level of immersion. One of the biggest hurdles is voice imo. Those vids of anons fapping with cute anime girl face rigged up are pretty hot, but seeing something like that and then a dude's voice coming out would be pretty jarring.
Any technology that increases immersion beyond just headsets is of course a plus too.
I just hope that we develop anti-aging technology well enough and fast enough that we can stick around long enough to live through advanced VR that can put us in realistic-feeling virtual bodies. I want to be the little girl as realistically as possible and cuddle with /a/nons.
joke's on you, im dying at 40. SCA is a bitch
>>140742094
A: This will never happen in our lifetimes and you now it
B: Even if it existed, just because I don't want to hang out with you annoying faggots doesn't mean I couldn't use it.
>>140742280
>Those vids of anons fapping with cute anime girl face rigged up are pretty hotl-link?
>>140740484
That's spending 2% to gain 13% on 70yrs. You're going to spend ~30% unconscious anyway. It's a fair net gain, among other health and social benefits.
>>140742473
>I don't want to hang out with you annoying faggots
If we're all annoying faggots then why are you here?
I don't really get why you would go to the trouble of posting in this medium that you wouldn't be here in a different medium. Whether we're lolis or little blue boxes with text shouldn't matter.
>>140742729
Sorry, I don't have a link or webm on me, but it shouldn't be that hard to find
Just google "facerig 4chan masturbation" or something along those lines and it'll probably show up
One of these days I wanna figure out how to do that facerig stuff myself.
>>140740236
Wonder how that would look.
>>140742865
Living with people is a lot different than just seeing their dumb posts on the internet.
>>140743100
Eh, true enough.Can't you just leave me to my sad idealism ;_;
>>140743843
No.
>>140736182
Whats the point in living then.
>>140736542
At least you've got good taste in dancing manga
To be honest, I've never understood the obsession with becoming a cute anime girl. I can get where it comes from, but I'd rather be a cute alpha anime guy.
Anyone here been temporarily paralyzed? Can you tell me if it gets better
>>140745503
>does a temporary problem get better eventually?
It seems like you answered your own question.
>>140745494
Enjoy the pixelated penis.
>>140745566
Worth it to be able to generate literal buckets of cum each day
>tfw I can mindbreak every anon with the power of cock after they get turned to little girls
>>140745653
>tfw anon will mindbreak me with his cock and fill me with literal buckets of cum
>>140745494
>>140745653
Guys are gross go away.
escapism is unhealthy
