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I think 200 years ago, the curve would have allowed him to say something like "the exponential is so sharp that I can say with 99.999999% certainty that no human will ever live to the age of 90."

I am not saying that my generation will be able to live to 500, but I bet that someday people will.

(I am interested in seeing the graph of "maximum possible lifetime" throughout time.)




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