Re:We May Not Have to Age So Fast
by raducu on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:22AM
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Maybe the costs are not fixed at 25, but 1/3 or 1/4 of life.
If you could live to 300, competition would eventually make it that you have to spend 150 years "building a life" (but hey, you still get 150 years of a good life).
Re:We May Not Have to Age So Fast
by samvher on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:11AM
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I think that's exactly the point that I'm trying to make. Most of the population ends up spending a much larger time of their life investing in skills and knowledge. So the total amount of knowledge in society would end up being far larger.
Re:We May Not Have to Age So Fast
by raducu on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:59AM
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That would be true for the wrong type of knowledge also -- politics, manipulation, power accumulation and so on.
If you think the 0.5% are bad enough now, wait until they can live to 500.
If you could live to 300, competition would eventually make it that you have to spend 150 years "building a life" (but hey, you still get 150 years of a good life).