Eugine_Nier comments on Living Forever is Hard, or, The Gompertz Curve - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 May 2011 04:16:18AM 2 points [-]

Well the wikipedia article on the topic suggests that the probability of dying also includes an age-independent component, i.e., lightning strikes, which tends to small for humans in developed countries.