I’m not sure I understand what you mean. The advantage of persisters is that they resist chemicals that target cell growth, so the human equivalent would be, for example, that a factory accident contaminates all the drinking water with potent contraceptive. In that case, maybe the mortals would go extinct and only the immortals would survive. But that doesn’t seem very likely.
Immortals would be incentivized to invest in mitigations that don’t make any sense for mortals because they only kill you once every 1000 or more years.
I think this should also link to the two headed bacterium post since the immortals here are like persisters.
For reference: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zHt3Sjrxx5jq7vYoh/the-two-headed-bacterium
I’m not sure I understand what you mean. The advantage of persisters is that they resist chemicals that target cell growth, so the human equivalent would be, for example, that a factory accident contaminates all the drinking water with potent contraceptive. In that case, maybe the mortals would go extinct and only the immortals would survive. But that doesn’t seem very likely.
Immortals would be incentivized to invest in mitigations that don’t make any sense for mortals because they only kill you once every 1000 or more years.