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We told you so. </div>
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<span>Seriously, it's encouraging to see the "longevity dividend" idea get more attention. It should be a powerful tool to help people rethink their economic and research priorities. Can we please step on the accelerator with the anti-aging? I'm 57 and cryonics
is looking more and more likely for me. </span></div>
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<span>--Max</span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> on behalf of John Grigg via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 5, 2021 4:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> John Grigg <possiblepaths2050@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Delaying Aging Would Bring Trillions of Dollars in Economic Gains, Study Finds</font>
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<span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">I can hear Max and Natasha in my mind saying to the world, "we told you so..."</span></p>
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<span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">"Now researchers have used </span><span lang="en-US" style="box-sizing:border-box">US economic, health, and demographic data </span><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">to put a price on just how
valuable such an intervention could be. In a </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-021-00080-0" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(237,102,41); box-sizing:border-box; background-color:transparent; text-decoration-line:none"><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">paper
in </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">Nature Aging</span></em></a><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">, they showed that treatments that slow down aging could be worth </span><span lang="en-US" style="box-sizing:border-box">US$38
trillion </span><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">for every extra year of life they give people.</span></p>
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<span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">This isnβt the first time someone has tried to pin a number on the benefits of slowing aging. The authors reference a</span> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0052" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(237,102,41); box-sizing:border-box; background-color:transparent; text-decoration-line:none"><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">2013
study in</span><em style="box-sizing:border-box"> <span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">Health Affairs</span></em></a><span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box">, which estimated that a 2.2-year increase in life expectancy could be worth as
much as $7.1 trillion over 50 years."</span></p>
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<span lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2021/07/12/delaying-aging-would-bring-trillions-of-dollars-in-economic-gains-study-finds/" target="_blank">https://singularityhub.com/2021/07/12/delaying-aging-would-bring-trillions-of-dollars-in-economic-gains-study-finds/</a></span></p>
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