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Humans seek to live a life that is tightly bounded in power output (about 150±50 watts by my estimate), but unbounded in time. Live for ever at lightbulb intensity. For comparison, strenuous exercise is about 700W and elite Olympic level power output can briefly hit 2 kW.
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The human desire for immortality (or at least a painless death) is sort of obvious, and for many literal. The human desire for bounded energy output is less obvious, but a shit ton of behavior becomes legible from the bounded power lens.
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We do a LOT more in our lives to achieve power-limitedness than we do to achieve life extension. Almost all our intelligence is devoted to achieving greater *effective* power output through knowledge, technological/political/social leverage etc with the same base load
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