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Though I'm not a singularitarian, I do think we are probably going to live an order of magnitude longer than our parents. Given that, buying a house seems too.
by taliesinb 13y ago
Though I'm not a singularitarian, I do think we are probably going to live an order of magnitude longer than our parents.
Given that, buying a house seems too... parochial.
- gmrple 13y agoYou think we're going to be living into our 800s?
- huherto 13y agoNo, he thinks our parents only lived 8 years.
- gojomo 13y agoPerhaps he means 'order of magnitude' in base e. Or 2. Or even phi.
- scarmig 13y agoI thought about this and I can construct some logic to support his phrasing. Suppose we figure out how to end aging, but people continue to die at the same mortality rate as the 25-34 year old group. That's roughly 1/1000 per year. (999/1000)^692 = 0.5 If we could nudge that mortality rate down a bit, 800 seems like a pretty good ballpark estimate.
- gte910h 13y agoApparently actuarial tables put us at about 600 w/o aging (accidents, etc)
- learc83 13y agoYou think we're going to live 10x longer than our parents, but without some kind of singularity/mind-in-a-computer thing? So you think we're biologically going to live to ~800?
- chopsueyar 13y agoI seent it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_%28The_X-Files%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_%28The_X-Files%29
- taliesinb 13y agoYes. Probably much longer.
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- saalweachter 13y agoDoesn't a 30-year mortgage versus life-long rent make houses seem like even a better value if you're going to live significantly longer?
- taliesinb 13y agoIt's more like the world is going to be radically different place in 50 years, and owning property in a formerly 'important' part of the world doesn't quite have that cachet anymore...