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so the question is. what happens at 1000 that kills us, and why aren't we solving that problem?

WTF didn't anyone see this coming? might as well just die now if it's all going to be the same...



ISTR that, on average, people would live to be 1000 on average if they died only from accidents/violence rather than disease and old age.

The age distribution would be different. With the simplifying assumption that everybody's chance of dying in a given year is the same, the mortality rate would be proportional to number of people alive, which means that 1000 years would be a half-life. So you'd see 1/8 of the people living to be 3000 or more years, 1/16 living to be 4000, etc.




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