Aging... differently!

A fictional conversation between GPT-3 and longevity researcher.

Do you not want to age? Why?

It is not about chronological age. I want to live longer, to experience the world a bit more.

Is it the same as being immortal?

Not really. I am more looking for a lifespan like that of Dunedain or elves from LOTR, to live for 500 years to 1000 years.

Ah, I get it. It is not about age; it is about time. You want more time. You want to experience more time.

Yes.
Yes, you could say that.

You could not-age, or you could slow down the time.

Travel close to the speed of light, you mean??

No, more like act fast, perceive fast. Do more in less time.

There is still a physical limit to how fast we can go.

Not if you decouple from your body, from the world of Atoms.

Ha! So you are asking me to upload myself to the silico?

No, I was talking about dreams. The physical laws of the natural world do not apply to dreams. You tend to node off for few seconds and experience hours in a dream.

Inception! Leo and Nolan movie. Are you talking about the same thing?

Yes, that's a good movie. Time tends to flow differently in dreams. You are not bounded by physical reality; your brain perceives and processes the dream world a lot faster. It is not restricted by how quickly you can act or physically move from point A to point B or how rapidly and efficiently you can vibrate your vocal cords to convey an idea to the next person. In a dream world, you are Neo, limited only by your imagination.

Yup, limited only by our imaginations. Not sure if you are aware, but we humans are not very good at extrapolation. One of the key motivations behind not aging and living longer is learning and exploring new things. Do you know, when we dream, our mind is both the creator and consumer. We generate the experiences, the dream world, based on our model of reality. Hence we can only learn, feel and experience what we already know. Living in a dream will be reliving the same experiences or some derivative of it, won't it?

Yes, I understand. Hence to have a novel experience in your dream, you need someone else to architect your dream.

Ideally, an AI that procedurally generates a carefully tailored dream. Wow! it is like an ultimate virtual reality but lived at 100x playback speed relative to standard time. Isn't this how Neo learns in the movie Matrix! The information is not written into his synapsis, but he experiences and learns that at an accelerated pace and in a perfect environment in a perfect but virtual world.

Yes, like the movie Matrix, you would need a direct interface between your brain and machine.

Quasi Neuralink...

Yes.

And to relearn how to live in a world of bits.

Yes.

by forgoing all the constraints that make life in a world of atoms possible.

Yes.

And then switching back and forth between perfect life in the world of bits and messy chaos of the world of atoms.

Yes, you could say that.

That doesn't solve aging.

No, it doesn't solve the physical phenomena of aging, but it buys you a lot more time and allows you many more dimensions to explore.

You don't say!!

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