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New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely

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215 points XzetaU8 | 3 comments | 30 Aug 25 16:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.331s | source
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markus_zhang ◴[30 Aug 25 18:06 UTC] No.45076770[source]▶
I think it’s fine. When I get older I’m more intrigued whether there is an afterlife, whatever it is.
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1. qgin ◴[31 Aug 25 03:38 UTC] No.45080165[source]▶
When you have general anesthesia, you experience nothing, not even the vague sense of time passing like when sleeping, it's just an edit in time. You basically don't exist when you're under general anesthesia.

If a little propofol in my brain can make me not exist, I'm pretty sure when I don't even have a brain I will definitely not exist.

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2. markus_zhang ◴[31 Aug 25 12:40 UTC] No.45082735[source]▶
Yeah I did have one and it was as you said, an edit in time. However this is after all still different from real death so we will see.
3. jart ◴[31 Aug 25 17:31 UTC] No.45085050[source]▶
Why would they pull you out of the sim if you're not dead? For all we know you need to sleep up on the spaceship too.