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Comment author: knb 25 September 2014 04:37:25AM *  3 points [-]

He's joking. Look at his previous post on longevity.

This might take a lot of work. If so, don’t count on seeing effective immortality any time soon, because society doesn't put much effort into it. In part, this is because the powers that be don’t know understand the points I just made. Sometimes I wonder what they do understand.

Cochrane's model of the "powers that be" seems to be that they are kind of dumb.