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It is incredible that Uemura has been giving lectures at foreign universities even in his late age, and a member from our local video game archivist organizatio
by sanqui 5y ago
It is incredible that Uemura has been giving lectures at foreign universities even in his late age, and a member from our local video game archivist organization was extraordinarily lucky to get a NES signed from him when he was visiting Bratislava.
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- GhettoComputers 5y agoIs 78 considered old age? Danny Kahneman is 87, grew up in Nazi occupied France and still does.
- renewiltord 5y agoYes, 78 is considered old age. In fact, the US life expectancy at birth is 78.
- Kye 5y agoJapan's life expectancy is a bit higher.
- melling 5y agoYes, it’s 81.5 years for a man and almost 87 for a woman. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_ex...
- whimsicalism 5y agoyes, 81. i'd say 2-3 years before the average age of someone's death constitutes "old age", surprised to see this has spawned such a debate.
- laumars 5y agoLol I had the same thought. There’s times when HN feels a little like Monty Python https://youtu.be/xpAvcGcEc0k https://youtu.be/xpAvcGcEc0k
- GhettoComputers 5y agoMost of the US is obese and unhealthy as well. If we remove child deaths from ancient Roman times it wasn’t that different not accounting for infant mortality, and in Britain for males it’s 79. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-ancient-people-live-life-span-versus-longevity https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-anc... >If one’s thirties were a decrepit old age, ancient writers and politicians don’t seem to have got the message. In the early 7th Century BC, the Greek poet Hesiod wrote that a man should marry “when you are not much less than 30, and not much more”. Meanwhile, ancient Rome’s ‘cursus honorum’ – the sequence of political offices that an ambitious young man would undertake – didn’t even allow a young man to stand for his first office, that of quaestor, until the age of 30 (under Emperor Augustus, this was later lowered to 25; Augustus himself died at 75). To be consul, you had to be 43 – eight years older than the US’s minimum age limit of 35 to hold a presidency.
- renewiltord 5y agoInteresting. So what age would you consider old age and on what grounds? I am confident a random sample of any nation on Earth would consider 78 old.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoAsk them what age and they’ll tell you what age they think a 78 year old should look like (examples like on oxygen, can’t use legs, obese, completely wrinkly, no teeth, had 20 pills they need daily, basically on the verge of death). Ask people how does this person look and they’ll often be surprised, epigenetic age matters more (obesity raises it for example) and when we think of age we don’t think years as much as “how old they look”. There are 50 year olds that show accelerated aging and 80 year olds that still look younger than their age. https://www.odditycentral.com/news/ripped-81-year-old-bodybuilder-proves-that-youre-never-too-old-to-lift.html https://www.odditycentral.com/news/ripped-81-year-old-bodybu... https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g01016/ https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g01016/ I will look at a person and decide how old they look.
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- harles 5y agoI’ve always found mean life expectancy an odd metric. Median life expectancy seems more useful to answer “how long am I expected to live?” and appears to be 3-4 years higher in the US.
- nine_k 5y ago78 is definitely not young, and various age-related health conditions develop rather abruptly with age. While your mind might be crystal clear, the rest of the daily life is far harder at 78 than say at 48.
- melling 5y agoIt’s not young but it’s not extreme. The average lifespan for a man in Japan, where he lived, is 81.5 years Many more people are living into their 90’s, and even over 100. https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/18826/number-of-hundred-year-olds-centenarians-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/18826/number-of-hundred-y... Hopefully what we consider to be old changes over time. Dr Fauci is a few days from 81, for example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci “Old age” is likely one of those things we simply accepted and never made much of an effort to address the issues that make us old.
- wolverine876 5y ago> The average lifespan for a man in Japan, where he lived, is 81.5 years That includes people who died as children, teens, etc. If you reach 70, your average lifespan is much higher AFAIK.
- markus_zhang 5y agoAh this is sooooooo good...
- agumonkey 5y agoOn another branch of the digital world, Louis pouzin was also doing talks not long ago