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What wll human life expectancy be in my lifetime?
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:03 am
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:03 am
I’ve got about 50 years left. By the year 2070, what are we looking at?
A couple factors to consider:
Prenatal diagnotic testing - Fetuses with abnormalities will be culled at a high rate once this testing becomes commonplace.
Gene therapy - There are some hurdles, but I believe they’ll figure out how to modify human DNA to treat and eventually prevent disease.
AI - AI is already better at diagnosing disease than human doctors in some fields. AI will only get better and may find ways to prevent diseases or other ways to extend human life. Then there’s the singularity....
Advances in biotechnology - We’ve come a long way in the last 50 years. Stem cells, 3d printed organs, peptides that can direct the body to do all sorts of things, implanted microchips... It all points to longevity, and it’s avancing faster every day.
By 2070, I think a newborn will live to 170-200 on average, and there will be versions of eternal life available as uploaded “consciousness” on a server somewhere.
By being born a few decades too early, you lost out on another 100 years of life.
A couple factors to consider:
Prenatal diagnotic testing - Fetuses with abnormalities will be culled at a high rate once this testing becomes commonplace.
Gene therapy - There are some hurdles, but I believe they’ll figure out how to modify human DNA to treat and eventually prevent disease.
AI - AI is already better at diagnosing disease than human doctors in some fields. AI will only get better and may find ways to prevent diseases or other ways to extend human life. Then there’s the singularity....
Advances in biotechnology - We’ve come a long way in the last 50 years. Stem cells, 3d printed organs, peptides that can direct the body to do all sorts of things, implanted microchips... It all points to longevity, and it’s avancing faster every day.
By 2070, I think a newborn will live to 170-200 on average, and there will be versions of eternal life available as uploaded “consciousness” on a server somewhere.
By being born a few decades too early, you lost out on another 100 years of life.
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Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:05 am to olgoi khorkhoi
Since Obamacare was passed life expectancy in the US went down for the first time in a very long time. So, I'm not sure where we're headed in this area.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:05 am to olgoi khorkhoi
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What wll human life expectancy be in my lifetime?
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I’ve got about 50 years left.
About 50 years.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:05 am to starsandstripes
Lol please.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:06 am to olgoi khorkhoi
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By being born a few decades too early, you lost out on another 100 years of life.
Thank god
frick being 150 years old
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:09 am to NawlinsTiger9
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frick being 150 years old
Even if you were aging much slower? So 100 would be like mid 40s is now.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:09 am to starsandstripes
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Since Obamacare was passed life expectancy in the US went down for the first time in a very long time. So, I'm not sure where we're headed in this area.
Access to primary care statistically correlates with increased life expectancy. Obamacare required health insurance policies to cover primary care. It also was aimed at increasing the number of insured people, increasing access to primary care. I don’t understand your point.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:10 am to olgoi khorkhoi
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I’ve got about 50 years left.
Hope you aren't jinxing yourself there, pal.
If there is one certain thing out there, it is there is uncertainty.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:10 am to TBoy
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don’t understand your point.
People stop seeking care when they can’t afford that shite. And Obamacare made healthcare unaffordable for many.
Hell, I’m pushing year 2 uninsured. frick Obamacare. I’m not spending more on heath insurance than all my other bills combined when I’m a single young healthy male who hasn’t been sick in years.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:11 am to olgoi khorkhoi
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By being born a few decades too early, you lost out on another 100 years of life.
Yea I’m okay with that
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:11 am to beerJeep
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I’m a single young healthy male
Pics?
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:13 am to OysterPoBoy
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Pics?
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:14 am to bigberg2000
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Lol please.
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Dec. 8, 2016...American life expectancy is in decline for the first time since 1993...“Life expectancy increases, and that’s very consistent and predictable, so to see it decrease, that’s very alarming.”
Life expectancy declines researchers puzzled AKA Shut yer face
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:14 am to olgoi khorkhoi
See an above thread about someone teaching an AI about murder.
We ain’t gonna make it.
We ain’t gonna make it.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:15 am to starsandstripes
So are you saying Obama dropped life expectancy? Nice spin and quite the reach. I am sure I can find whatever data I want as well.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:16 am to starsandstripes
The NY Times??
Fake News
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:17 am to olgoi khorkhoi
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By 2070, I think a newborn will live to 170-200 on average
I don't think so. Maybe into the 90's/early hundreds mark.. But I don't think humans will hit the 170 mark in the next 200+ years.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:21 am to TBoy
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Access to primary care statistically correlates
You don't know what these words mean
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Obamacare required health insurance policies to cover primary care.
Correlation causation, semantics schematics.
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It also was aimed at increasing the number of insured people, increasing access to primary care.
Insurance does not equal access and access does not equal care.
It's like you don't understand any of this topic at all.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:24 am to Sao
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The NY Times??
Fake News
Real news. They just quoted numbers from a published study. They couldn't really fake it this time.
Posted on 6/9/18 at 9:33 am to olgoi khorkhoi
Bout tree fiddy.
Seriously though, I have no expertise in this at all, but it seems to me that if you take out the catastrophic causes of death that we seem to be getting better at preventing then a person has always lived to about 80 plus or minus 10 years. It seems, intuitively to me, that's just just about when our bodies decide to give out. These 150+ numbers that I hear about seem like science fiction to me. Then again there are a lot of things going on today that would have seemed like science fiction even 20 years ago.
Seriously though, I have no expertise in this at all, but it seems to me that if you take out the catastrophic causes of death that we seem to be getting better at preventing then a person has always lived to about 80 plus or minus 10 years. It seems, intuitively to me, that's just just about when our bodies decide to give out. These 150+ numbers that I hear about seem like science fiction to me. Then again there are a lot of things going on today that would have seemed like science fiction even 20 years ago.
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