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Originally Posted by JimOfferman  . Choices are devoid of power and meaning if you have the time to try everything. If you have all eternity, you don't have to choose how to spend your time. |
I don't see why that would be the case, so long as things continue to change. One moment will always be different from the next, never to be repeated (unless people learn to manipulate time), so taking action at the right moment will still have its merits, and you'll never be able to read EVERY book so long as there are people (and maybe AI) writing more excellent books for eternity. Unless/until you can read them more quickly than they're written, which would be an interesting possibility in itself.
Going beyond books/movies, there will be new forms of entertainment/life experience as the complexity of culture increases. Imagine what Da Vinci might come up with if he had a trillion times the thought power and would never die. Even without mental enhancements, incredible things could occur if the world's most creative people weren't limited to a few decades on Earth.
I don't know if physical immortality/radical healthy life extension will happen or not, but I'd be okay with trying it out. For now, I continue to live in such a way that I could die right now without feeling like I'd missed anything critical.