There's also a practical case today where this applies: cancer treatment. One of the reasons life-expectancy are not given much past a 10-year timeline, is beca

There's also a practical case today where this applies: cancer treatment. One of the reasons life-expectancy are not given much past a 10-year timeline, is because it's generally expected that over a decade the quality of cancer treatment will have improved substantially and as such the likely patient outcome much beyond that isn't known (and is usually better).