[ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2025, 1:30 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> This is what I should do, but I keep accepting paid gigs, always
> promising myself that this is the last.
>

I advise that you keep doing that.

If you are approaching or in old age, the "one weird trick" to extending
your life is: never fully retire.  A 9-5 job, or even a paid job (if you
have enough money to live on, if modestly), is not necessary - but staying
mentally active is.  (Physically active helps too, but mentally active is
arguably more important, and more under your control.)  If you surrender to
idle leisure and stop doing challenging things, your body starts to shut
down, accelerating the aging process.

This by itself can make the difference between dying at 75 vs. dying at 95
- and determine whether you will still have enough of a brain left, if you
do die before the Singularity and have to go into cryonics, to be
uploadable.

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