John_Maxwell_IV comments on Measuring lethality in reduced expected heartbeats - Less Wrong

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 08 January 2014 09:27:54AM 1 point [-]

So you can translate, say, smoking a cigarette into a cost of about 1800 expected heartbeats (or about 80 seconds of life expectancy).

It sounds to me like your heart is beating very fast.