To the extent that a given fact about life extension can be sneered at like that I would assume that the question was intended to encompass facts of at least one degree less obvious. ie. “What practical things should everyone be doing to extend their lifetimes apart from, you know, breathing, eating, sleeping, drinking?” is implicit.
Given the huge number of smokers and obese people, I daresay the things I said in the grandparent are not that obvious (or most people aren’t interested in living longer).
“Obvious to the population as a whole” and “obvious to a LessWrong reader” probably differ dramatically. I don’t think repeating the advice is necessarily bad, since those are common points of failure, but the value of the advice is probably fairly minimal.
To the extent that a given fact about life extension can be sneered at like that I would assume that the question was intended to encompass facts of at least one degree less obvious. ie. “What practical things should everyone be doing to extend their lifetimes apart from, you know, breathing, eating, sleeping, drinking?” is implicit.
Given the huge number of smokers and obese people, I daresay the things I said in the grandparent are not that obvious (or most people aren’t interested in living longer).
“Obvious to the population as a whole” and “obvious to a LessWrong reader” probably differ dramatically. I don’t think repeating the advice is necessarily bad, since those are common points of failure, but the value of the advice is probably fairly minimal.