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wedrifid comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 2 - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: OpenThreadGuy 20 April 2012 07:38PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 22 April 2012 08:32:07PM 2 points [-]

Don't they teach this stuff in high school?

To the extent that a given fact about life extension can be sneered at like that I would assume that the question was intended to encompass facts of at least one degree less obvious. ie. "What practical things should everyone be doing to extend their lifetimes apart from, you know, breathing, eating, sleeping, drinking?" is implicit.