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CellBioGuy comments on I have just donated $10,000 to the Immortality Bus, which was the most rational decision of my life - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 19 July 2015 01:50:49AM 1 point [-]

It has more or less been following a logistic growth curve, with the majority of the change occurring around midcentury and the vast majority of longevity increase occurring in early life due to infectious disease. The oldest people have not gotten appreciably older over civilized human history either.