gwern comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Yvain 05 December 2011 10:49AM

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Comment author: gwern 05 December 2011 06:50:45PM 2 points [-]

we may not have cured cancer yet, but many forms are much more treatable than they used to be

Which is already built into the quoted longevity increases. (See also the Gompertz curve.)

Comment author: Desrtopa 05 December 2011 06:58:02PM 2 points [-]

Right, my point is that SENS research, which is a fairly new field, doesn't have to be dramatically more successful than cancer research to produce tangible returns in human life expectancy, and the deceleration in increase of life expectancy is most likely due to a negative health trend which is likely not to endure over the entire interval.