NancyLebovitz comments on Polyhacking - Less Wrong

75 Post author: Alicorn 28 August 2011 08:35AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 28 August 2011 07:54:55PM 6 points [-]

That sounds a lot like Shaw's Back to Methuselah, in which people lose interest in most (all?) social interaction, including sex, by about age 200 and prefer mathematics.

I don't know what people would do to get enough novelty in much longer lifespans-- it's possible that sex could be made more complex and intense as well as mathematics becoming more fascinating.