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The difference between panaceas and this is that the idea for extending life isn't to add something, but not to fuck an essential part of life. If you think of
by TZubiri 2y ago
The difference between panaceas and this is that the idea for extending life isn't to add something, but not to fuck an essential part of life.
If you think of life as the careful coordination of millions of parts, then there will be a million of things that if you fuck up you will die.
- lanstin 2y agoWhich is the model that matches acceleration of death rates as we age.
- TZubiri 2y agoThe reduction of death rates which is not due to panaceas but to fixing specific causes of death, one by one, yes.
- lanstin 2y agoI meant more like this: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7272078/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7272078/ Like it breaks down at an exponentially increasing rate. Hard to keep up with that.
- TZubiri 2y agoOh interesting. Yes I agree that such a model of accumulating damage would show a logarithmic scaling with life expectancy.