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Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said
health and fitness The body as something you decide about: sleep, exercise, drugs of every legality, and how far optimising it is worth taking.
I actually I do wanna die. I don't wanna do this forever. Like, I think the human li- lifespan of about 90 to 100 sounds about right. I'm embracing the finitude of life.
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I hold this tooCannot both be true
Ours may be the first generation of humans that does not die
Johnson says ours may be the first generation of humans that does not die. Hansson says a lifespan of about ninety to a hundred years is right and that living forever is not something to want. The disagreement is not about whether it is achievable but about whether it is desirable, and Hansson answers the question Johnson does not ask.
In tension with
Every predicted ceiling on human life expectancy has so far been broken.
Dattani observes that every predicted ceiling on human life expectancy has so far been broken. Hansson says a lifespan of about ninety to a hundred years is right and that living forever is not something to want. One is a record of forecasts failing; the other is a preference, and a preference is not refuted by a trend — which is exactly why they sit here together.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.