For eg. during the Black Death, children were basically treated as not even really alive till they made it past 7 or 8. Their mortality rate was too high. Feudalism was quite a flat political structure at the nobility level. Individual nobles dying was rarely a crisis.
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Something that will really shift the perception of >80 y/o life is autonomous vehicles and domestic robots, when they are sufficiently reliable.
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Also, the increasing migration to virtual environments, where physical embodiment no longer restricts, and identity is more fluid. Will need to improve at being cognitively intact at old age, but this is greatly improveable.
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Wonder if there is a K-value to societal quality of life relationship
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Really interesting. I’m inclined to frame the r-K paradigm spectrally, not binarily. And I’d think professional hyper-specialization both increases fragility and impedes progress (re:
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Do you think that humanity will eventually unwork hyperspecialization? Fragility begets instability via inability to adjust to fat-tailed event space of the world. We have to either engineer a gradual generalist Renaissance or suffer an uncontrolled, abrupt regime shift
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There's a particular right-wing crank I read sometimes, who has a theory that r/K theory underlies political beliefs/affiliations/policies. I don't buy it, but it's interesting. I'll see if I can dig up his website or whatever.
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