Would you like an ugly long life?

How important is physical beauty? Would you swap it for a longer life? How long is the ideal lifespan?
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[@thorff1]

Jokes on you, I'm already horrendously ugly. Easiest decision of my life.

[@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506]

Well, well, I fooled you all along *evil laugh*

[@iby914]

thorff1 - No Sir, the jokes on YOU as you won't live for a thousand years. Or should I say the jokes on us :'(

[@Felix-ve9hs]

If you die after 100 years you look like a ugly corpse for 900 years - and are dead

[@uninterruptedrhythm4104]

thorff1 agreed

[@willythemailboy2]

thorff1 - the one person on earth who could take this deal and become _better_ looking.

[@ImmaterialDigression]

I already look like shit. Give me a thousand years of life now please.

[@AnubisTheMaster]

and ye'll look worse, the more time passess the more the body becomes ugly The nose ears , the skin all inflates saggs and all that stuff ,its ugly to live long xD

[@gimmecat6251]

I already look like shit. Kill me now please

[@maelgugi]

Anubis Master I'm not sure that would be the case in this situation. There's so much decay a human body can take before it stops being functional (assuming you define being alive as having a body able to perform its normal duties). But since you can choose how much you can live, it automatically implies your body will stop or slow down the decaying processed. Don't you think?

[@hypoaktivnaovca]

The question does say that you can choose how old you want to be physically, which implies that you would no longer age.

[@campomambo]

Kurzgesagt did a video on how to stop aging.

[@MinedMaker]

To me, this is just a question of *"do I want to live for a thousand years?"*

[@puglosipher1666]

cause we're already that ugly (budum-dish!)

[@TheNSJaws]

Puglosipher Just when I was starting to miss you captain Obvious! 😄

[@mrmoth26]

Nah.

[@mrmoth26]

@@puglosipher1666 UGLY CLUB! Can I join?

[@IIAndersII]

I would just wear a mask and be the mysterious badass dude.

[@Theorimlig]

Police love that.

[@kirotheavenger60]

IIAndersII see also: weirdo that wears a mask all the time.

[@TheOneLichemperor]

Hot Fuzz comes to mind. "Why is he wearing a mask?" "He's fuck ugly." "Or he doesn't want you to see his face." "Cos, he's fuck ugly!"

[@Khanemis]

Phantom of the opera is here...:)

[@gabemerritt3139]

I could make that work

[@capefear56]

If I had 1000 years to live, I would hone a particular skillset and become legendary at the craft. Looking ugly wouldn't stop me from that goal.

[@AskiFin]

Don't kid yourself, we'd still spend majority of our time a) procrastinating b) going to work (and sleep 1/3)

[@Paciat]

Just learn a few languages. Earn some money in GB then spend them in Ukraine. Earn some money in Singapore, spend them in Chile. Life is cheap in many places, and its easy once you start something lucrative.

[@emptyhusk150]

In a thousand years, AI would do it much better than you. Even in a hundred years.

[@Paciat]

Why? I had hundred years of experience, they didnt. You assuming that I wouldnt learn anything in that time while the humanity would, Im assuming that I would be the smartest man on earth by then.

[@emptyhusk150]

I wasn't talking about humans, but Artificial Intelligence.

[@iby914]

In a thousand years I could potentially master whatever defect I have in my personality and potentially become a king amongst men.

[@trombonegamer14]

ibkillah you could. One would hope, however, that after a thousand years you would have the wisdom to lose your fascination with dominating your fellow humans.

[@DrewLSsix]

995 years later, sitting on couch... scratching balls.... what was I supposed to be doing🤔?

[@DrewLSsix]

Jack Marlow. A king amongst men, not a king of men....

[@eelsemaj99]

DrewLSsix king Lloyd. I'd live with that

[@dmaster225]

DrewLSsix Lame. All confident guys feel like king amongst men. I'd rather be the actual king.

[@_Matsimus_]

As a Roman, I have lived for a thousand years... and I can tell you... I don’t enjoy life anymore, I miss the days of slaying barbarians and slaughtering small civilizations. Nowadays I’m sat behind a desk sorting paper clips....

[@TheOneLichemperor]

For some reason, you're comment reminds me of the scene from Life of Brian. "Crucifixion? Good. Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each. "

[@dergonactual6462]

yoooo! its my homie!!

[@kylebroflovski5333]

Matsimus gaming is here, best think of something clever..... ...I failed.

[@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158]

Matsimus Gaming #RomanProblems

[@lillypillie6469]

Well sad i never visited the west. Than we could have met. Ho well i met Emperor Ming tough!

[@BobMarley-vl5gl]

As long as I have a computer and WiFi I will happily live 1000 years

[@Frank-do1bg]

you would be fucking lonely

[@Frank-do1bg]

well ok

[@nope1083]

What if you were born 100 years before the internet

[@quepacho64]

1000 years of memes

[@napalmpig3772]

@Igg Technically you can't "be" dead. You're just not alive anymore. Being dead isn't a state you can be in, it's non-existence. Unless you're religious or something. Meh, I'm just being pedantic.

[@RebelSoule]

or wear a cool mask like Jack of Blades

[@salottin]

Now that's a cool guy

[@thrupert]

YOU'VE RECIEVED A NEW QUEST CARD

[@salottin]

THE HERO OF HEROES: JACK OF BWLADES

[@adamfrisk956]

Hero, your willpower is low. Watch that.

[@yamadiyoo9658]

Does it come in beige...

[@RimmyDownunder]

One idea on ugly successful youtubers - it's sort of a cause and effect. As people become more successful they shape up their game as they start to be taken seriously and want to actually be presentable. Someone who may have been lazy as shit and only ever wore t-shirts with their hair growing all over is most likely going to end up cleaning up, dressing better and getting a better/more attractive hair cut as more people watch them live-stream or in their videos or especially in real life. I can name a few fat youtubers but even those people take good care of themselves. Fat is very much a multiplier - a chubby guy can clean up very well and look attractive as hell, but if he looks dishevelled and lazy he'll look much worse than a similar skinny guy.

[@justateddybear951]

Ya ever seen Imaqtpie? lmao

[@cricticalthinking4098]

Unless you're used to being around people who are physically ugly, there will be no getting around that shock effect of seeing someone who is truly ugly to look at. A person who is truly ugly may get a pity following, or a following because of their expertise in a specific area, but realistically that person will not be very successful playing a role in which they show themselves on the internet. Not to mention how horrible it would be for that person to look in his/her own comment section for any length of time. Ideally, you would hope that the person would have the same opportunities as a really attractive person, but that just isn't the case. If you value mastering a certain skill in life, I can imagine how beneficial a long life, even an ugly one, would be very beneficial to you.

[@wishiwasabear]

A better question would probably be "Would you like to be extremely beautiful and admired by everyone but shorten your life-span by half?", I'm sure a lot of narcissists would agree with that.

[@angryguineapig4323]

Ow that's a good one.

[@sergiobosque7416]

What if i am already?

[@angryguineapig4323]

NO one is admired by everyone so get of your high horse.

[@ErwinPommel]

Speak for yourself, Angry Guinea Pig.

[@angryguineapig4323]

I don't admire both of you so both of you are full of shit.

[@brotomann]

Casey Neistat is one of the most successful KZbinrs despite having a neanderthal Quasimodo aesthetic. I think it can work in your favour if it makes you very distinctive looking in the world of KZbin where people seem to be drawn to people that look like characters rather than 'normal people'.

[@buffoonustroglodytus4688]

AAAAHHHAAHA so true, Neistat is one ugly ass dude

[@Theorimlig]

He's not really ugly, though he is a bit weird looking. I think a lot of people would actually rate him as very attractive, even on looks alone.

[@eerovuori4827]

They wouldnt without his success.

[@Theorimlig]

I dunno, he's in great shape and I'm sure the rest of his looks are something that make him look characterful more than repulsive.

[@Emppu_T.]

I think he kinda looks like a Sean Penn with a funny nose (like the one with the joke glasses)

[@bpb210]

All of these questions involving an unnaturally long life make me start to wonder, what would your backstory be? Once you've been around for say, 200 years, wouldn't people start to ask questions? Wouldn't you attract more and more attention as you got into your 300 year? Would you have to travel to unknown locations so that you wouldn't stand out as a freak who never aged? And how about your birth certificate saying you were born 300 years ago - would you have to start forging documents like those? I suppose I think a bit too far into this...

[@bpb210]

Basically after about 75 years, looking like a Perpetual thirty-year-old, you'd spend the rest of your time trying to prove you're not an identity thief.

[@Topstormking]

Just carry around some super old shit with you or make a name for yourself. If your concerned with the public attention I am sure after 200 years you can, among other things, become so good at forging documents you can make yourself out to be whomever you wish.

[@resmur8095]

I mean if you're born before the documentation of births it's very easy to forge your identity i would say, you go to a town stay there for a few years work, live and eat. After 5-10 years you leave go to another town repeat the cycle and on to the next one. If you avoid getting into really personally identifiable information such as fingerprints and genetic testing you're pretty much good. probably harder to find work but if you stay in you're prime 20s probably can scrap by.if somebody recognize you from let's say an old photo or their old relative knows you it's easily shrugged off after all it isn't too uncommon for people to find look alikes from the past

[@BrendanBlake42]

"I think, in a thousand years, I could get used to people finding me ugly." In my experience, it takes about twenty. Hahahahahahaha. Oh, I'm so lonely.

[@professorcactus8172]

Another great video, Lloyd :)

[@Rice1is1nice]

How could you have posted this three days ago?

[@nathanmcnee3343]

It wouldn't show the post date as November 14 if it was privated.

[@ScienceDiscoverer]

Mb he is Patreon subscriber

[@aidangeis4686]

That is actually a really good question. Maybe that should be number 218.

[@inlikeflynn7238]

that's a pretty fair point if you keep looking at awfulness long enough it stops being awful after a time.

[@lazypoo6117]

> lindy photo shops himself to look "extremely ugly" > looks just like me :(

[@Somkent]

People change personalities and values fairly often during their lives, They say a person could go quite mad given enough time and personality changes? I am not the same person I was five years ago, in 1000 or less I might not value life in the same way or have the same humility and be perceived a crazy person by others, as well as ugly and unapproachable on top. (Reading and Playing computer games would not be effected be this so maybe...maybe....) Can I choose this option once everyone close to me in my current life goes? That would effect my decision I think. Also building close relationships might be hard after the first few life-long friends go and you know it will just keep happening to anyone else you get close to.

[@sajro94]

Many people today, I believe, are afraid of losing those close to them and thus are afraid to get any close friends or romantic interests. But when you know it is going to happen, and you have experienced it, you might stop to be so afraid of loosing people that you open up quicker, creating close bonds quicker because the quicker the bond is made the longer it lasts.

[@Somkent]

Finding friends and putting yourself out there will get easier as time goes on and experiences are made, I mean maybe once a relationship went from casual to close, maybe that could be harder to keep maintained, perhaps you would find yourself backing off a lot because of the loss of someone close is a lot harder than the loss of an acquaintance. After losing X amount of close friends or lovers it would be a nightmare to consider getting close to anyone again? Maybe...?

[@aurourus6894]

I think at one point you would just stop giving a fuck about friends.

[@LOREHAMMERLIBRARY]

how about casey neistat?

[@enzoaugusto1577]

Ser Ganjikilla He doesn't have nice tats :/

[@urdnal]

HA! I actually thought of that guy. He looks like he's wearing one of those fake nose and glasses disguises (without the moustache)

[@batatis11]

He looks like the Yellow Man from Sin City, but skin tone.

[@TheChabowski]

He looks like he's made entirely of elbows.

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

Casey Neistat has like 16 charisma, if he were a D&D character. He pulls people immediately in. He gets your attention very quickly and can maintain it, and he's very relaxed about it.

[@xbbao]

I can finally live my fantasy of being a Sid Meyers Civilization game character!

[@mrmoth26]

I wish I would be floating in space after everything colapses and ends, sounds fun.

[@user-ii8od4wu5p]

I wouldn't live 1000 years as Casey Neistat

[@junoguten]

Hey, he never said your personality needed to be hideous as well.

[@TheMegaRin]

Anyone interested in the subject, I recommend you watch a movie called "The man from earth". I believe it was officially released for free by the director, should be on youtube even.

[@Morgai-Fly]

My consciousness > other people's opinion of my looks.

[@martinalexhuh]

I love how you decide randomly to ignore context at times in a sentence. Love it. Great video.

[@lachlanmoore9619]

I would do it because I got no chance of getting a girlfriend at this rate anyway *edit Sorry guys I forgot to mention that I had a girlfriend like 4 years ago and no luck ever since

[@ChePennyDK]

Girls can smells male desperation, do some Yoga(Bonus lots of girls in Yoga class), or find something that can center you!

[@EmpardsBreeze]

@ChePennyDK Better yet, dismiss women.

[@maelgugi]

EmpardsBreeze Or become very good at something and get profits from it. I'm not saying many women will prefer richness over beauty, but there's a niche... either that or lower your standards.

[@Emppu_T.]

Become a wizard

[@michaelharder9737]

the utter lack of self esteem is a major problem for you. gear your life around something else and become successful at it, and you'll probably find someone

[@cyrilj.o.saroch6573]

I'd be afraid of losing memories after a significant period of time, though.

[@Lexyvil]

Content like this is why I'm glad I'm subscribed~

[@diogenesthevlog6589]

The thing about immortality that freaks me out is how time would become really hard to personally relate to. I work with kids and the weekend seems like it lasts forever to them, mostly cause two days is a much longer percentage of a five year olds life than it is someone in their fifties or forties. It might become hard to interact with others when a week begins to feel like a day to you

[@basicallyhell4150]

Huzzza another great video huzzza

[@stellarytc1629]

Gah! My eyes are scarred!

[@b-dogmathmatics5460]

Lindy, as long as you are still making youtube vids. I could live a thousand years!

[@jimb1453]

Definitely be happy to live 1000 years! It would be amazing knowing you're definitely going to live that long, so much to learn, do, experience and see :D

[@ErwinPommel]

More and more, these questions seem to be giving us enormous insight into the mind of the author of this book. I don't think I like who we're being shown.

[@thossi09]

But how about deep relationships, or even just any relationships (including friendship, as well as romantic relationship)? Wouldn't it stop being interesting after a while, getting close or forming close bonds with others, considering that you'd be absolutely sure you would live longer than them? At least, I'm not entirely sure I'd enjoy it very much after some time had passed, if I were the only one living so long.

[@davidemoras5185]

thossi09 That's an interesting point of view.

[@SnazzyBoBazzy]

A lindybeige vid? Oh boy it's my lucky day

[@Oxnate]

Just got my In Search of Hannibal update. I'm glad you're doing the writing for the book since Chris mixed up then/than.

[@EmpardsBreeze]

This is a weird question. 2/3 of humanity already suffer this fate, some more than others, so it's kind of like asking "Would you like to live 1,000 years as you are now?" to a lot of people.

[@Theorimlig]

You think 2/3 of the world's population is really ugly? I almost never see a really really ugly person. Sometimes you see people with obvious disfigurements and similar, people who have lifestyles where they can't afford to pay any attention to how they look often look really disheveled (really poor people, some addicts and so on) and you do get the occasional person who's just been unlucky, but thinking back on people I've gone to school with and similar I can't really think of many ugly people at all. Do you mean that the really ugly 2/3 are approximately evenly distributed in the population? Because where I live, I'd say maybe 1 in 25 people or less are what I'd consider ugly.

[@EmpardsBreeze]

@TheodorEriksson I was mostly exaggerating. The 2/3 I was talking about are particularly or noteworthy unattractive people, but not utterly hideous. A person's biology can heavily affect how they view attractiveness as well. From my own experience, as well as being the result of studies I've read, it's possible to find ugly people attractive if they're the most attractive in a group, and attractive people ugly if everyone around you is attractive. A person's biological standards naturally change, both over time as well as through environment.

[@Lilitha11]

I am not sure I have ever seen a person who was naturally hideous looking, unless they had some kind of bad genetic disorder. In most cases, the really ugly people had some kind of medical issue. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of truly very ugly people was less than 1% or something. I would also say the same is probably true about the super beautiful. There is a lot of very beautiful people in the world but how many of them are naturally that beautiful? Take a beautiful person and they don't cut, shave, or pluck anything, they don't use any makeup, shampoos, or conditioners, and you have them wander around a forest for six months and then look at them. Are they still beautiful? Maybe, but are they super hot? Probably not.

[@tSp289]

Lilitha11, depends what you like. I often find that girls I've gone out with look better during the day than they do when out on a date. Why? Because say that cute girl back in art college with her baggy jeans and paint-stained hoodie gets all dressed up for a date, she puts on a ton of makeup and a sparkly dress and suddenly she's not herself any more. Still pretty but looks like a cookie-cutter red-carpet model rather than the girl who laughs at your jokes in class. As a portrait painter I spend a lot of time looking at peoples' faces in a kind of depth that almost no one else does, and I can tell you that to be super-beautiful (as you put it), it is more than just a surface impression. There will be a kind of balance to the features that no amount of makeup can replicate. Look in depth at a super-beautiful person, and you can pick out and name every single flaw but the overall impression is still powerfully striking. It's also deeper than sex, because some faces are just magnetic, even if they are say, a wrinkly old man, there will be some kind of beauty in there that makes up for all the flaws. Most people don't have that. What most people have is a few features that ARE beautiful, put together in a face that is overall not. Those people can use makeup etc. to imitate beauty, and people who like them will see the attractiveness of those features and focus on them, where other people just can't see it, because they won't spend enough time looking. Makeup is a way to trick people into looking long enough to find the actually beautiful features and notice them, where someone who is naturally stunning might actually just hide or over-emphasise the natural features that make them beautiful in the first place.

[@higorguedes4413]

4:47 there is lindybeige... Just kidding lol!

[@jasonanderson9757]

I have that book :] just found your channel, love it.

[@thomaswilkinson3241]

Interesting approach to this question.

[@mbleh556]

Awesome video! And an awesome comment section! :^}

[@jorgexue5502]

M Bleh why does my phone says that you've added this comment 3days ago if the video was just uploaded?

[@proxel96]

jorge xue I think Patreons get access to the video early

[@jorgexue5502]

Proxel it's weird tho, no other patreons commented

[@MultiCaliffa]

Why are there comments from 3 days ago if you just uploaded the video? ILLUMINATI

[@johnladuke6475]

Patreon.

[@asaadb1]

superb video about an interesting subject

[@ac4694]

I truly admire how happy person you are

[@RebelKeithy]

Extrapolating.... Q217 will be uploaded on Mar 30, 2026

[@johnladuke6475]

Fortunately our cybernetic implants will give fantastic video resolution and notify us instantaneously.

[@Rice1is1nice]

Lately I've encountered an awful lot of people, who advocate, that ones success in the world is entirely predicated on looks. They postualte, that a truly ugly person cannot find success or love, despite their efforts, because other people are subconciusly aversed to their appearance. What is your opinion on that school of thought, other than that it's self-defeating?

[@CuriousKey]

Winston Churchill begs to differ. :P Hideous man, great success. I do think attractiveness helps, but people thinking it's the be-all-end-all sounds like a defeatist excuse to me.

[@CuriousKey]

To add to that, think of people (outside of the entertainment industry) who are successful, and you will find ugly people. Theresa May in the UK, Angela Merkel in Germany, Many leading experts in the sciences look fairly unappealing. Even in the entertainment industry you get ugly people. Steve Buscemi? He made a career out of it. Being a good actor was enough, he didn't need looks.

[@CuriousKey]

I would say that love is unfortunately probably harder to find than success for quite ugly people though. I have heard it said by tech professionals who were women that ugly women found success *easier* than pretty women because being attractive for some reason made people assume that's why they were employed, not for their expertise. So there's certainly an inverse affect sometimes.

[@quintessenceSL]

For the most part, beauty is pretty relative (extremes aside, and even then, as Lloyd points out, people will get use to you). Not to mention looks fade a lot faster than most other attributes. That's a narrow window in which to find success. What isn't discussed much is how disadvantageous being one the beautiful people is. Kind of like extreme wealth, it puts you on the defensive that people are only trying to use you, or only see you in reference to that one thing. Hard to build any decent relationships with that.

[@yorkshire_tea_innit8097]

A handicap doesn't mean you can't win. It just means it could be a little harder. You must hang out with teenagers, probably girls, because I feel as I've gotten older looks seem less and less Important because people are so much more different in ways other than god given virtues.

[@Tijjain]

Only 200 more to go!!! Keep them coming P.S I completely agree with you here. There's just too much to see and do in our 75-100 years lifespan

[@bonjour1416]

Great video! More tank videos please?

[@Captain_Mike82]

Not to be rude, but Casey Neistat is not good looking and very popular. I've seen people make loads of horrible comments about his appearance, but he has more than thrived on a visual based platform.

[@Kissamies1]

In a thousand years you could watch all the porn

[@bethanybellwarts]

I bet more porn is being produced everyday than you can watch in one day, so you'd probably need multiple monitors. and what if one porn is 2 hours long?

[@Kissamies1]

well I guess you could watch all the current porn anyway

[@johnladuke6475]

I doubt a single millennium would be enough time to watch all the porn that exists already, never mind anything new.

[@ms.verepaine6914]

nope

[@montanus777]

there is way too much amateur porn out there to keep track of all of it. _but_ when you live for a thousand years, it's actually pretty likely that you'll experience at least a part of your life living in very prude societies. we cannot just assume, that life will be like nowadays for the next 1000 years. just imagine living in the middle ages, which (partially) isn't even 1000 years ago. there wasn't too much porn around back then - not only due to technical limitations, but also due to social acceptances.

[@Abelhawk]

Lloyd is the master of overthinking and overdissecting hypothetical questions. :D

[@anders8206]

Yeaa a new upload!

[@jbcroatoan]

That's down right terrifying Lloyd. Proportional Theory say that our perception of time changes the longer you've been alive. It's why summers lasted so long as children but seem to fly by now. At 10 years old, a year is 10% of your life, but at 100 years old, that same year is 1% of the time you've perceived so it seems to go by so quickly. At 500 years old, a year is .2%, other humans would grow old and die so much more quickly than you, much like our pets do for us. You wouldn't be able to connect to people, as your experiences would be vastly different. Hard pass on living that long.

[@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506]

yea. I wouldn't want to see everyone around me die multiple times.

[@salottin]

Connect to turtles. But seriously, I always had that train of thought and that's why people always say that "every year the year goes by faster"

[@theeccentrictripper3863]

I actually have a longer perception of time than as a child. While you're completely right about proportional time, as I've gotten older more of my time has been spent productively and with less mundane routine such as going to elementary school with the same classes every day at the same time. In that sense I see that time has gone by, but because of the sheer quantity of experience in that amount of time comparatively it seems to stretch out so much longer. I imagine that if I were to return to some incredibly mundane daily existence that would change immediately, but as it stands quantity of unique or novel experiences slows the perception of the passage of time, as you're not on auto pilot nearly as much.

[@cockfaceification]

it is true that time is perceived to go by faster as one ages, but that isnt relevant to the question because he was allowed to chose what biological age to live as for the whole 1000 years.

[@jbcroatoan]

That means your body doesn't break down. You are still perceiving more time pass. It says physical age, not mental age.

[@DrexisEbon]

Ugly youtubers: Casey Nystat

[@aurourus6894]

You were soooo close.

[@davidmcgregor4537]

Absolutely. It even reduces the risk of many activities you might want to attempt with all that time as well. I'm for it!

[@CatacombD]

Don't need to live a thousand years to rewatch shows you've forgotten. With my terrible memory, I already do that now!

[@RoyalDog214]

Lindybeige's calling people ugly! How rude!

[@MultiCaliffa]

I'M MR. MEESEEKS LOOK AT ME!

[@nestrac]

No golf-swing practice...... It will end in tears

[@MultiCaliffa]

rowsdower I'd love to! Existence is pain

[@MultiCaliffa]

hehpillt28 Yes, indeed.

[@Emppu_T.]

Who roped you into this

[@aurourus6894]

Ah, what a fine place to meet an intelligent soul.

[@onetwothreefour3957]

some ideas for interviews you might have once you've uglified through magic: "hello kind sir or madam, as you can see i had an unfortunate meeting with a tractor, but do you happen to like tractors?" [unintelligible] "really? that is suprising, i thought you came to the tractor museum just in front of you"

[@andrewmalcolm3209]

5:37 You should write a book, you're a really cool and loveable dude and I'm sure you have a plethora of interesting stories to tell. I'd buy it.

[@TreeFrogOnATree]

Living for a thousand years would suck, think about how boring everything would get once you've seen it all...

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

TreeFrogOnATree it would change though, as time went on there would be new technology, and new things.

[@Exarion251]

I doubt you could see everything in a thousand years. It depends on how deep you wanna dive into something. But considering that it can easily take you 10 years to master a craft or to truly understand a society, I think the decades would fly by.

[@Rubysh88]

Plus times passes faster as you live longer, the last couple of centuries would feel like a few decades to someone who lived so long. I mean, im not even 30 and the last 10 years have passed quite fast.

[@Cpt.Zer0]

The universe is infinite (in our human eyes at least) So to live in the golden age of space exploration and live to see it must be wonderful.

[@1337w0n]

Death is bad, Life is good. Sickness is bad, Health is good. Aging is bad, Youth is good. Beauty and Happiness and Fun and Laughter and Challenge and Love and Learning are all good. -Yudkowsky

[@elforeigner3260]

One thousand years? I could barely stand two hundred years before going insane. I’m not sure a normal mind would stand one thousand years

[@iamalittleboat]

living 10 000 years, seeing hundreds of generations of friends and family go. pretty cool.

[@romulusnuma116]

3:55 that a brilliant way of putting it

[@chickenking1753]

I remember the good ol days, 672 years ago to be exact, oh how things have changed.

[@JoakimFlood92]

Reading the title thinking to myself "I bet Lindy will take this to an extreme". 30 seconds into the video "what if you fall down a mineshaft and have to live there for 950 years". This is why I'm a fan! 😊

[@11kakuzu]

Id take the thousand years, and my ideal existence period would be forever because then i could experience the infinite possibilities of existence. Although i may get stuck at points in the chaotic nothingness at the end of reality eventually it'll reorder into a new existence maybe a completely different one with new things to explore or an old favorite universe to relive.

[@aleidius192]

The thumbnail will haunt my dreams for a thousand years.

[@ataphelicopter5734]

Only 997 left now

[@steppewop]

People don't even know what to do during some weekends and want to live forever.

[@real_MAYBEMAYNOTBE]

3:06 that's why babies cry when they look at me

[@lunhil1264]

Think of all the skills and crafts you could master with such a lifespan, I’d go for it.

[@isn0t42]

Imagine honing your skills for hundreds and thousands of years. There's a reason why I'm so excited for the upcoming "Highlander" remake. SWORDS! and IMMORTALS! HUZZAH!

[@LordBaktor]

Agreed on every single word on this one.

[@nhiris4640]

with these kinds of questions several problems always come, like aging of the body, progress of physical deterioration, progress of rational and emotional state, some others and, as I am firmly confident in saying, most of all; like the problem of psychical AND/or MENTAL state (health). It is also really important, I think, how'd you define the nature of one's ability of mental development: whether would your mental capacity stay limited in ways the human brain ultimately somewhat is or whether would you have some way of expanding beyond these limits. Then I reckon, that your head would have to grow a bit, maybe... and some muscles and other bones etc., but on the other hand it would give you the possibility, that someone mentioned here before, to grow bored with the resst of humanity

[@LuxFerre4242]

This just makes me think of Mr Flint from the Star Trek episode Requiem for Methuselah. He accomplished many great things over thousands of years but was incredibly lonely without any fellow immortals.

[@Odyseja2011]

Professional mask and you're good to go. I would take it - any live extension is worth it.

[@gregorykrajeski6255]

I would love to live long enough to watch evolution happen and remember older forms of life

[@manlymollusc6534]

Fellow ol' Lindy can take my remaining years. I don't want them.

[@helle5285]

I would take it, just for the sake of learning new things. But would my brain retain all this information after say five hundred years. I wouldn't want to have to learn Mandarin more than once. Thanks for sharing another great video, I always look forward to them.

[@strider7273]

Please make a video about "Harzhorn" i found the subject very intreting and so few people actualy know about it

[@Internetspaceships]

If i could i would live to see the dimming of the last star in the universe. I have no rush to die, im not really sure there is anybody waiting on the other side.

[@puppyenemy]

There are movies touching on this subject of living for a thousand years, and the main characters never seem too happy about living for a long time. The ones I come to think of is "Highlander" (don't mind the sequels) and "He Never Died". Granted, the protagonist of Highlander has to worry about killing/getting killed by other immortals, and the protagonist of He Never Died has to drink human blood as a curse (not a vampire tho)... but still! In Highlander, he is sad that he outlived the love of his life until she died of old age, and in He Never died, he's just... apathetic towards everyone since having lived for like 6000 years already, he just can't care about other people anymore. I would really recommend these films. I can't imagine no one having ever seen Highlander, such a cult classic, but I do reckon He Never Died is a bit more obscure (and recent.) Give that one a shot! It's Henry Rollins as the protagonist :) I've seen many people saying he's acting kind of autistic in this film, but really, he just doesn't care about *anything* that happens around him due to his immortality.

[@metayerman]

I’m refreshed to not hear “but all your friends and family would die!”

[@TyphusAndronicus]

I love how he just casually has a pile of historical weaponry in the background

[@geta6863]

Every call for help has to be heard

[@lostyogi8712]

I’m a terrible procrastinatior. I would need a thousand years to do anything worth while........even then I still probably won’t get around to cleaning the back room.

[@Formulka]

All the people around me growing old and dying for generations would be pretty depressing I imagine.

[@ugluk56]

Lloyd is right, i was subscribed to Lizzie Velasquez channel and after a while i was very much used to the way she looks, and not thinking in terms like ugly anymore.

[@almor2445]

Ever watched black mirror? One episode called white Christmas ended with a man trapped in one room for what felt to him like hundreds of thousands of years with slade playing the whole time. That scared me more than any death!

[@KBJade39]

Lindy as the Doctor

[@XXWhambarXX]

Use it to your advantade. The ultimate lemons into lemonade story has to be Michael Berryman who used his looks to his advantage starring in films like the original the hills have eyes.

[@tedferkin]

Another quick follow up please. Immortality of not dying/aging vs Immortality not killable. These I see as different and having different consequences.

[@roberth.goddardthefatherof6376]

yup!

[@Otokichi786]

Hmm, "The Elephant Man" for a millennium? That would ne most interesting, leading to different paths; The Recluse vs. The Personable/Brave Monster. I see space travel or "doing Jacques Cousteau" as worthwhile pursuits, since they are vast and unknown.

[@DaBezzzz]

I would learn everything that I could, becoming the best writer, actor, artist, swordsman, blacksmith, and musician known to man

[@tmmerremont2703]

This longevity premise is addressed in the film , "The Man From Earth", written by Jerome Bixby. The protagonist is named Professor John Oldman, and the Tomatometer rating is 85%.

[@xramejin]

"It's better to live ugly than to die beautiful"- Mei Ling

[@micahphilson]

I can imagine, after 1000 years, Lloyd just getting used to opening every conversation with a new person with *"I... am not... an animal!"*

[@ms.verepaine6914]

Can a person even have a millenia of memories?! How many centuries can a person recall

[@THEXRULAX]

YES PLEASE