KOL: a 500-year-old human might be a completely different person — how radical is immortality?
VraserX · x · 2026-11-08
AI commentator VraserX argues people underestimate how fundamentally radical immortality would be: a 500-year-old human wouldn't just have more memories — their values, relationships and personality might be entirely different. He asks at what point a person who lives forever becomes a completely different person. An open-ended AGI/life-extension discussion piece.
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