Values - Tag - Daily Deep Think https://blog.baifan.site/en/tags/values/ Values - Tag - Daily Deep Think Hugo -- gohugo.ioenblog@baifan.site (ByF) blog@baifan.site (ByF)Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0800 Immortality Is Just Eternal Loneliness https://blog.baifan.site/en/immortality-eternal-loneliness/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0800 ByF https://blog.baifan.site/en/immortality-eternal-loneliness/

Immortality Is Just Eternal Loneliness

Today I saw a piece in the NT saying that China’s longevity industry is advancing at full speed and that people living to 150 is just around the corner. I searched the Chinese domestic news, and every story said people would only live to 120 — which turned out to be the press sparing the honored any embarrassment. Awkward.

Sometimes I think humanity’s greatness lies not in flying into space, but in never giving up its obsession with living longer.

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Not Even Your Life Is Wanted Anymore

https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/china/story20251111-7801146

The news says robots are about to be deployed at scale. The article puts it decently: this is ‘high-quality development,’ this is ‘intelligent upgrading.’ But I keep feeling there is something cold in those words. Like a celebration for a funeral nobody was invited to.

There was a time when, however miserable things got, those at the bottom still had one presentable skill — trading their lives for money. Down the mines, hauling rebar, into the chemical plants. The pay was low, but as long as you were willing to grind, you could always live like someone who was ‘useful.’ Their lives were their last bargaining chip. Now even that chip is being taken over by machines.

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