CronoDAS comments on A few analogies to illustrate key rationality points - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 09 October 2011 09:53:30PM *  4 points [-]

so people living in average like a few millions of years.

"Curing aging" isn't enough on its own to get a million year lifespan; an 18-year old male in the United States has about a 1 in 1000 chance of dying before reaching his 19th birthday*, which would imply an average lifespan of about 1,000 years.Of course, by the time we do cure aging, we'll probably have solved a lot of other problems, too...