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"Exponential decay is sharp, but an exponential within an exponential is so sharp that I can say with 99.999999% certainty that no human will ever live
by quizbiz 17y ago
"Exponential decay is sharp, but an exponential within an
exponential is so sharp that I can say with 99.999999%
certainty that no human will ever live to the age of 130."
It pained me to read that. But because we don't know why the equation fits, we don't know that there is nothing that can be done to make it shift. Maybe one day we will talk about life span like a shifting demand/supply curve.
- lionheart 17y agoThat statement would make sense with the addition of "at our current level of technology."
- Locke1689 17y ago(Ignoring, of course, the upward shift in the lifetime distribution that will result from future medical advances) ...
- jrockway 17y agoI think 200 years ago, the curve would have allowed him to say something like "the exponential is so sharp that I can say with 99.999999% certainty that no human will ever live to the age of 90." I am not saying that my generation will be able to live to 500, but I bet that someday people will. (I am interested in seeing the graph of "maximum possible lifetime" throughout time.)