Lumifer comments on Open Thread, Feb 8 - Feb 15, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 08 February 2016 06:12:19PM 1 point [-]

For lifestyle interventions to reduce healthcare costs you should incentivize people, especially older people, to take up extreme sports. For the best savings you want people to suddenly die just as they are starting to get sick more often.

I would recommend subsidies for things like ultralight airplanes, BASE jumping, fist-fighting sharks, and competitions to see who can get the furthest into the open ocean before his ice floe melts...