It is interesting that people work on increasing longevity, but not on increasing appetite for life. I think the median appetite for life is about ~30y, and if you live to be ~70, you have a problem. Most of us solve it by rationing our appetite and acting dead in between.
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Replying to @literalbanana
I still refuse to bow to damn kings and queens though Hmm... something very normie about monarchism, going by royal wedding nonsense I just experienced in UK
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“Appetite for life” is hard to define. It’s part of the reason I’ve been exploring elan vital. Bergson had an angle on memory/action/novelty that has lots of echoes in Schmidhuber. Proust (a Bergsonian) is clear example of appetite stopping at 30 and shifting to memory reruns.
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I legitimately think this is a problem of cultures that 1) are at least 1 full generation removed from a Big Fucking War and 2) lack (or suppress) initiatory rites or any other kind of adult confrontation with mortality
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