<p>So you pass your knowledge on, then it doesn’t die.</p>
<p>Also - just so you know…you’re gonna lose it LONG before you die. It’s gonna start seeping out of your head about age 50…at an increasingly rapid pace. You might end up with LESS than the amount with which you started. </p>
<p>Muahahahahaha!</p>
<p>Well “death is a necessary end which will come when it will come”…</p>
<p>And fluid intelligence decreases after age 25.</p>
<p>I think it declines after age 16? (that’s when raw IQ scores peak out). Or even age 14 (according to Robert Epstein). </p>
<p>hahahaha passing knowledge on is just a temporary extension. 
the vast vast majority of people will be forgotten in like a couple of generations.</p>
<p>there’s nothing you can do to prevent death (although i was watching on the discovery channel a few nights ago about some animal, i think a shark or an octopuss or something, it was some sea creature, that they’re trying to figure out how to isolate a gene it produces that slows down aging) so you might as well enjoy life and not worry about it.</p>
<p>i’ve always been envious of those scholars from the 19th, 18th, 17th and so forth, centuries. they seemed to enjoy learning and discovery whereas now you need to study moreso for the grades so that you can eventually lead a decent life.</p>
<p>I figure that I’d be very very bored if I didn’t do anything with my life except wait to die. I have to fill that time somehow. </p>
<p>And death itself is a new learning experience, if you choose to look at it that way.</p>
<p>IDK, heaven might check your SAT scores. :P</p>
<p>Anyone with an SAT score below 2300 spends time in Purgatory to improve upon their somewhat mediocre scores. </p>
<p>Anyone with an SAT below 2000 goes to Hell-there’s no helping them. </p>
<p>(I would like to point out, before someone gets insulted, that I’m not meaning to insult people with scores below 2000. But I could see this being a rule in a CC version of the afterlife.)</p>
<p>Actually, every CCist goes to the Supreme Forum. :b</p>
<p>Hmm interesting. Out of curiosity, what’s your reasoning for learning all that you do learn?</p>
<p>You might as well just say I shouldn’t study anything at all because i’m not going to gain anything when I die?</p>
<p>I always tell people I want to live forever. They think I’m joking, so I laugh with them, but I’m not :(.</p>
<p>I’m curious as to when I’m going to die. I think death is so intriguing.</p>
<p>I’m an advocate of hedonism. I used to be the complete opposite, but now in wise old age of 19, I’ve realized that it’s really good to enjoy life and not spend your whole time worrying about everything.</p>
<p>I’ve thought of this too. I have my life planned out.</p>
<p>Finish HS -> Go to college -> Get a job in engineering -> Work for 40 years -> Retire -> Die.</p>
<p>Sounds like fun methinks.</p>
<p>Death is rather fascinating. I don’t think I would rush it along, though.</p>
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<p>Heh it’s a long story. Some of it comes out of desires that could possibly be rational (e.g. if i want to maximize the probability of my having “maximum utility”, best to be something that I perceive as very applicable in the far future, and if I want to make the most out of the far future, I better understand science and technology REALLY well since they’ll drive the direction of the far future; and deep knowledge of math+physics+CS is necessary for that); some of it comes from my childhood drives of “liking” a lot of science (although I like science when it doesn’t involve being so frustrated at abstruse articles, which is unfortunately how I must learn it at the university level); some of it comes from my drive to analyze everything and to develop theories that explain the special cases of everything social and natural;but some of it also came out of a long-standing drive for me to prove myself (since I’ve had the experience of being tracked to non-honors classes, which made me angry and very motivated to prove my ability in spite of what school did to me; but even after that, I’m insecure about my intelligence and want to prove it to others). So it leads to a lot of masochism, but at least it doesn’t have stimuli redundancy (I call “redundant stimuli” to be the worst “intellectual evil”). But one can have lots of “fun” without running into lots of redundant stimuli (high openness predisposes one to such tendencies); it just happens that academics are the easiest way for someone like me to not run into redundant stimuli. </p>
<p>And unfortunately I’m severely masochistic, since I want to learn chemistry, physics, biology, math, astronomy, CS, EE, Econ, Stat, and a lot of other fields - all at graduate student levels of understanding. In fact, I know that a lot of professors in fields like applied math and physics already know ALL of those fields at such levels of understanding.</p>
<p>Life sucks then you die.
Truth.</p>
<p>" 'Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, this life
Trying to make ends meet
You’re a slave to money then you die"</p>
<p>Hopefully someone mistakes this for a riddle :)</p>
<p>nah I won’t lose it all. I’ll just reincarnate and the intelligence will follow.</p>
<p>unless you’re equality 7-2521 the world won’t lose much from you</p>