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I used to think that age equated to percentage of life lived, thus I thought that most people live to close around 100.
But it also made me think that people only get old when they're like 80.

I mean like actually "old". The "old" adults were referring to. At that age I considered those 14/15 year old 9th graders old, just a bit different "old".

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

As a child, I came to consider 40 to be basically dead and pointless, a withered husk clinging to life and a sense of relevance like the flagpole of a sinking ship.

As someone about to hit that mark, I still haven't seen any new information that changes my opinion on that.

Our cognitive ability peaks around our late 20s. We humans love to delude ourselves about our mortality with comforting thoughts like "well my experience makes up for it, herp derp," but that's just something to help us sleep at night as we degrade at an ever accelerating rate.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't disagree. But between experience, resources amassed, and relationships built by the time you turn 40, it's often possible to have a greater actual capability despite your slightly reduced theoretical capability.

Basically when you're in your 20s you might have a bit more cognitive horsepower, but you typically lack some emotional and financial tools to leverage that horsepower more efficiently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I genuinely don't get how people delude themselves into thinking aging is perfectly fine, we've always known it's a terrible process and we've sought to defeat it for thousands of years. It's also wild to me that we aren't putting a truly stupid amount of money towards that goal either, emperors used to understand that finding the cure to it was worth literally everything. Yet here we finally are with the ability to meaningfully and exponentially progress our knowledge and we aren't devoting our entire society to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean, our owner class is sinking stupid amounts of money into it.

https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2015/10/billionaire-philanthropists-funding-anti-aging-research

https://www.businessinsider.com/richest-wealthiest-entrepreneurs-ceo-billionaires-tech-searching-hacking-longevity

Though I promise you that is one product, whether it's a drug that costs pennies to manufacturer, or clone replacement body/organ vats, that they won't allow to fall into the reach of the bottom 99% of us mortals.

Is there anyone who doesn't see people like Zuck, Musk, and Bezos as hardcore wannabe gods?