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

46 Post author: gwern 17 May 2011 09:08PM

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Comment author: gwern 21 January 2012 11:50:41PM 0 points [-]

It's the humans that matter for us...

Comment author: timtyler 22 January 2012 12:59:55AM 0 points [-]

For you maybe. Those interested in biological senescence need a general theory that accounts for late life mortality deceleration. Attributing it to "data collection problems" fails to capture the phenomenon.