Tyler Cowen: belief

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…I feel like 130 to 150, I wouldn’t find surprising, often good, because I feel like we are discovering that there’re tons and tons of stuff that we’re learning about the body and about gene therapies and other things, which seem like there’s a load of interventions you can do that might stack on one another to actually durably extend healthy lifespans for some period of time. I was going to say 110, but I tried to be a technological optimist, so I added a couple of decades on top, which I’m assuming comes from magic AI-driven advances that I have underestimated in this response. I think the brain is very hard to fix. If you just wanted to keep someone alive literally, perhaps 130, but for them to be the same person, I think I’m stuck at 100 for most people. It’s just hard to replace the brain without killing someone. You can replace all the other organs, right? Yes. Here I subscribe to the idea that there’s a ton we don’t understand about the brain, and AI is going to help us understand loads more. There might be things that can be done here, which have eluded us because they are so unbelievably complicated, we needed AI-mediated tools to help us figure out the experiments and approaches.…

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