The Economics of Aging

🦢Solving Aging

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It’s chaos. Just pure chaos.

This is a rant against trying to predict the future. Against using economic models for after the time when aging science has upended all fundamental economic axioms.

As Hari Seldon in Foundation said:

"The validity of my predictions is dependent on the assumption that the human species will continue to react to stimuli in the same way.”

The fact that you will die is the most fundamental determinant of your behavior. It underlies everything. If you add even the slightest bit of uncertainty, you wake up in a new world. One with different game theoretic conditions.

Solving aging will change everything. The economics of social systems, pensions, war, health care. The value of a life will increase by orders of magnitude, the value of an hour of your time decrease by the same. How can anyone seriously think such a world can be modeled?

And that doesn’t even take into account the short-term chaos: Trillions of dollars in savings from the healthcare system overnight? Sounds like a 30% reduction in GDP to me. Less kids, because there is less pressure for women? Or the first truly multigenerational households? Pension funds … puff? I have so many questions, and so should you, economist.

Remember: When your grandma starts looking younger than you, all hell breaks loose. Longevity is the science of the chaotic good, no one else.

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If the proximate purpose of technology is to reduce scarcity, the ultimate purpose of technology is to eliminate mortality.

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