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You will never have enough information or control to optimize for longevity, nor to know if you’d actually want to live in the world left for you at 100. Just
by swatcoder 4y ago
You will never have enough information or control to optimize for longevity, nor to know if you’d actually want to live in the world left for you at 100.
Just do your thing while you feel like doing your thing, and if there comes a time that something personally meaningful makes you want to do something else, do that thing.
Lifestyle research is great, but it’s glacially slow, prone to dramatic revision, and inherently impersonal. It’s not meant to be a textbook on how to live your life.
- hackerlight 4y ago"Lifestyle research is great, but it’s glacially slow, prone to dramatic revision" Would you say this about smoking and morbid obesity? Just because some things in lifestyle research are wishy washy and uncertain doesn't mean all of it is. Rotating shift work is one of the things to avoid.
- swatcoder 4y agoI think it took 50+ years for public consensus to form around smoking (even if many people bought in sooner), and now vape culture has challenged that same consensus by formally changing the subject of research. Meanwhile, challenges to the consensus around morbid obesity are skyrocketing to the top of thoughtful communities like HN as recently as last week. I’m personally skeptical on both fronts, but also don’t find myself drawn to either, so my skepticism isn’t practically meaningful. And especially since I’m not much effected, I can’t moralize over somebody else’s relationship to those beliefs or how they live in light of them. If they want to hope vaping is safe and obesity is misunderstood, or even if they’d just rather be a fat smoker and take statins, that’s kinda their thing to sort out. I can’t possibly expect myself to know their context better than they do.