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Comment by TZubiri

2 years ago

The reduction of death rates which is not due to panaceas but to fixing specific causes of death, one by one, yes.

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lanstin  2 years ago

I meant more like this: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7272078/

Like it breaks down at an exponentially increasing rate. Hard to keep up with that.

  • TZubiri  2 years ago

    Oh interesting. Yes I agree that such a model of accumulating damage would show a logarithmic scaling with life expectancy.

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