Lalartu comments on The innovation tree, overshadowed in the innovation forest - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lalartu 27 February 2014 01:15:31PM 0 points [-]

The proof of the pudding is in the eating -- are the mortality numbers (or, better, life expectancy) "massively >better" today than 30 years ago?

No it is not and it will never be unless cure for aging is found. Most people die from old age now, even say a cure for all forms of cancer won't change these statistics much.

Comment author: Lumifer 28 February 2014 01:13:50AM 2 points [-]

Most people die from old age now

What does that mean?