Well, now you’re getting into the next stage: preventing accidental and intentional death. Estimates I read a long time ago and would love to see an updated cite if anyone has one said that once “natural” / ageing causes are removed, the average person would still only be expecting to live a few hundred years until something else (probably an automobile) kills them.
Of course once ageing is dealt with we will have bought ourselves some time to deal with protecting our biological bodies from accidental and intentional harm.
It can’t be a few hundred because that would imply that the non-natural-causes death rate is about 20-30% of the natural-causes death rate, which isn’t true. At least in the developed world.
I think it’s more like a few thousand.
And driverless cars are on the way, which would reduce the death rate drastically.
It can’t be a few hundred because that would imply that the non-natural-causes death rate is about 20-30% of the natural-causes death rate, which isn’t true.
If you have a 0.1% per year chance of dying “non-naturally”, the probability of you surviving for 100 years is 0.999^100 = 90% which looks to be order-of-magnitude correct for contemporary Western countries. This implies that your chances to live for 500 years are 0.999^500 = 60%, for a thousand years -- 37%.
Well, now you’re getting into the next stage: preventing accidental and intentional death. Estimates I read a long time ago and would love to see an updated cite if anyone has one said that once “natural” / ageing causes are removed, the average person would still only be expecting to live a few hundred years until something else (probably an automobile) kills them.
Of course once ageing is dealt with we will have bought ourselves some time to deal with protecting our biological bodies from accidental and intentional harm.
It can’t be a few hundred because that would imply that the non-natural-causes death rate is about 20-30% of the natural-causes death rate, which isn’t true. At least in the developed world.
I think it’s more like a few thousand.
And driverless cars are on the way, which would reduce the death rate drastically.
If you have a 0.1% per year chance of dying “non-naturally”, the probability of you surviving for 100 years is 0.999^100 = 90% which looks to be order-of-magnitude correct for contemporary Western countries. This implies that your chances to live for 500 years are 0.999^500 = 60%, for a thousand years -- 37%.
if P(life length=x) = p(1-p)^(x-1) with p=0.001, then E(life length) = 1/p = 1000. It’s a geometric random variable.
Which is NOT A FEW HUNDRED YEARS