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Not sure I understand the paper (not my field); are they saying that extrapolating from a mortality measure predicts that mortality is inevitable? If so... isn'

Not sure I understand the paper (not my field); are they saying that extrapolating from a mortality measure predicts that mortality is inevitable? If so... isn't that just a way of confirming the obvious, viz. that higher quantiles of a logistic distribution are closer to 1? Finding a cutoff age at a - quite large, it seems - number of 120-150 years is cool and all, but I don't see how this informs us about anything other than mortality measures predicting eventual mortality?

toss1 5y ago
It seems while the initial reading is that this is an inevitable process, the more sapient technological perspective would be that they've discovered a key mechanism that can now be investigated and adjusted for improved results. The key factor of humans getting to where we are (both good and bad), is our ability to see something that is, then figure out why it is how it is, and then change that structure/process/sequence to rearrange it to meet our goals.
- scarby2 5y ago
  > It seems while the initial reading is that this is an inevitable process, the more sapient technological perspective would be that they've discovered a key mechanism that can now be investigated and adjusted for improved results. I think this research is as much about to estimating the maximum age of an organism if all causes of premature death are removed. i.e. to get longer than that you need to fix aging itself not disease