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Comment author: timtyler 27 August 2012 10:14:31AM *  1 point [-]

Evolution doesn't optimize for the same purpose we do. Evolution doesn't optimize for us to live long, it has a very low pressure to make us live past ~60, for example.

Most living people don't optimise for that either. If they did, more would practice calorie restriction.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 August 2012 11:25:51PM 1 point [-]

Yes. My grandmother seems to not give a damn about how much longer she's going to live, only about how much Fun (which in her case essentially means food and cigarettes) she has every day before dying. And she has nearly explicitly admitted to that. (And no, I'm not just talking about the fact that she eats and smokes too much.)