I don't think AI is an imminent danger, or a reason to take your own life. You have lived this long, maybe against the odds - how about trying to improve your life and work on healing?

Well, Trevor, I'm scared I'll be dead by 30. I am, currently, aged 45. I know about the fear that Something will be the end of me. Please, talk to us, okay? We're here.

A good therapist might be able to help with fear and anger. The world can seem a scary place sometimes but there are ways to learn to cope with it. Good luck

Trevor.. I seen possibilities but I am older than you. The time of 2025 to 35 is when bio and nano may allow me to run like well some one much younger.. Bring it. Also the flying? can't wait. I hope I make it the next 20-30 years to do that.
I realize by your mini bio you have a lot even before you were born. But each day.especially as self aware as you seem is a day when you could exceed limits imposed. PTSD doen't always heal, but those here have the most developed senses of compassion and creativity. Also we seem more intelligent on many levels, a wide variety of experience and support when needed.

Welcome, my name is Jewell.
I like Lilly P., am sorry for what brought you here, but here is a good place to be.

Welcome, Trevor. I took a look at the video, and I have to tell you I find science like that really interesting. It might help you understand my interest if you know that until my own kidney failure I was a hospital chaplain until 2010 on a big city medical center's brain surgery unit.

I had been a hospital chaplain for a long time with heart transplant surgeons until I met the brain surgeons. I expected them to be arrogant, but they turned out to be the friendliest and most humble surgeons I ever worked with. The reason? The brain is still not completely mapped. So they had to respect the unknown when they opened up somebody's head every day.

I saw amazing surgeries. By saying that I saw them, I mean I was there when they were going on. Amazing brain procedures that would freak out the average person. Like procedures that allowed the brain to swell outside the skull, popping out of it, but then allowed the brain's swelling to subside going back inside the skull with no brain damage at all. It was my job to keep patients like that and their families from freaking out, to trust the procedure, and they benefited from the outcome.

But then I saw people have what seemed like a slight injury, have a brain bleed, and then die just like that. As smart as our brain surgeons were. And I had to talk after surgery to their families, too.

So what I'm saying is that I love science, I've worked alongside science at the highest level, but because I did I also know science doesn't have the answers to the life. Living life fully now is the trick. I came to face that myself when I found out about my major kidney damage and the mortal danger it has made me live in since then.

Talk about unfair. I have lived with PTSD since I was in a car bombing abroad when I was 9. And that was only the beginning of a childhood and youth full of traumas I had to survive in my home and in the streets until I came to the USA. I got through all that to where I could do some good as a hospital chaplain with brain surgery patients only to get kidney damage that would take it all away?

I don't know all the answers but it seems Buddhism and Alcoholics Anonymous have a point. Buddhism teaches us to "be here now" as human beings. AA tells us "one day at a time." Both are telling us it doesn't work to live in the past or the future (even if this video is right about 2045 and nanotechnology). All we ever have is the present moment, one moment at a time, one day at a time.

PTSD is an anxiety disorder, so those of us who have it, myself included, are predisposed to live in fear of the past or the future. Finding how to live calmly in the present seems to be the best thing for those of us who live with PTSD. Just speaking for myself, I do it by coming here every day.

Glad you're here.

Hi Trevor, welcome to the group. IMO, it needs to happen. The earth is simply renewing itself and we are just guests here.

Death does not scare me but while I am here I will try to make the very best of it. No reason to end anything because something 'MIGHT' happen. Shoot, they thought we would be riding around in flying cars by now.

I love science and we should be aware but often we take it too far too soon.

and by the way, when i get paranoid too much of this stuff sends me over the edge. Maybe sustain from watching it for a while?

I'm not watching it...I will keep surviving until there is no more way forward. I have a way forward now, and that has to suffice.
...Poverty kind of militates against long-term planning because you're far more worried about the very next issue you have to survive? I suggest you embrace not worrying about long-term survival, just think about the next two years...or less if things hit the fan.
Try to savor the now.
NOW is all we're guaranteed.

...All we are is process, here for the blink of an eye, then gone.

Hi Trevor. Welcome to the forum.

One of my longest running recurring nightmares is of computers chasing me down endless hallways full of closed doors and zero personality. They started when I was in the Army in the early 70's. You guessed it. . . I was a Data Communications specialist. The world's first internets. Girl howdy, I know how you feel.

Nothing lasts forever. Not even the human species or Planet Earth. We know the end is coming, both individually and cosmically but I try to let that be all the more reason to live every day to the fullest.

Your post got me reviewing some of the historical groups who have shared our fears. Historical review helps me keep it in perspective. I am not the only one who has lived with this fear. Thought I'd share one of the links. Meet the Luddites: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/?no-ist

Hope you find your peace with it, Trevor. I am still having those nightmares from time to time. It can, indeed, be whelming, but there are a whole lot of bennies, too, such as folks like you and I being able to share our views on YouTube, etc.

Welcome to the forum.