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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Mar 2019
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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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Mar 2019
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Mar 2019
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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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        1. Involuntary Man's Laughter‏ @dendricide 20 Mar 2019
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          does anything besides physical activity produce such spikes? I find it hard to imagine even extreme mental exertion could get above ~200W, though people certainly seem to avoid it similarly

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        2. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 20 Mar 2019
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          The two may be correlated... Sure future medicine, blah blah. But today it appears that most "aging" damage is basically the byproducts of leaky mitochondria. Pushing them harder just generates more leak byproducts faster. Hence, eg, life extension through reduced calories

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          But of course reduced calories is reduced power output. And the converse, increased power translates directly to shorter time. As of today, there DOES seem to be an energy limit, not just a power limit. Nick Lane is THE author to read about this. FASCINATING!!!

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        1. Nandhini Arya Stark‏ @softwarmechanic 20 Mar 2019
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          Hmm.. I always thought i was trying to do as much as i can not limiting, but expanding my power output.. Hmm.. I'll have reflect/meditate/sleep-over/slow-walk-around on this...

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          life as a quest for progressively more efficient dissipation of energy

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