@St_Rev Sounds like a statistical illusion. If all diseases happening late in life were eliminated, lifespan would increase greatly.
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@tailcalled I'm just saying 1 million lives with 1 year left >>> 1000 lives with 50. -
@tailcalled If you cured all cancer today you'd extend mean lifespan...three years? Five? -
@St_Rev Really? I'd have expected much more. I guess you'd also have to cure other parts of aging... -
@tailcalled Right, it's the Model T Axle problem. Natural selection makes it so you have n systems that all degrade at similar rates. -
@tailcalled Cure lung cancer and people will just die a few years later of emphysema.
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