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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by Tepix on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:06AM (#16429491)
If you leave out the repair mechanisms you save a lot of resources.
Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by fooker on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @03:30PM (#16432693)
Interesting point. This has a nice analogy in coding theory.

In general you can do things significantly faster with a lower number of bits if you leave out the redundancy required for error detection or correction.