Fluttershy comments on Immortality: A Practical Guide - Less Wrong Discussion
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This image was helpful. Having done a fair amount of reading into which types of practices improve one's lifespan the most, I'd like to use my intuitions to draft a loose list of which sorts of interventions extend the average resident-of-a-develop-nation's lifespan the most, per unit of effort expended.
From most to least impact per unit of effort expended:
The actionable items listed above are the big ones, and I feel like there's a notable gap between those items list above this point, and those below this point, in terms of effectiveness per effort expended. Continuing on:
I expect that there's another appreciable gap in the effort-to-value ratio between ideas listed above and below this point:
Also, there are a few things that seem helpful, but don't fit into this list in an obvious way. Cryonics, paying attention to your body, and taking care of your existing health problems are good examples of this.
I have a couple qualifications for your list. If one is vitamin D deprived (which is quite common), wearing sunscreen may do more harm than good. Also, as discussed in the original post, moderate alcohol consumption seems beneficial for some, so restricting alcohol consumption will only likely be beneficial if one drinks too much of it.
Thanks for compiling this list. I think it's hard to aggregate impact and effort into a single metric, since the latter is hard to measure and varies considerably across individuals. In this case, I would have found it more useful to have a ranking ordered by impact alone, and then decide on the basis of this ranking and my own sense of the amount of effort required by the different interventions. (Cf. Holden's post on "rational" vs. "quantified" approaches to cause evaluation.)