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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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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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