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But curing aging / death would obviously make it so that you _can_ thrive at 90. Besides, most people I know who are in that age bracket are quite happy.

>People who worry about death due to old age in their future are always the type who live in such luxury or are at their apex

Not in my experience. I think people in general prefer existing over not existing, no matter what age.

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> Not in my experience. I think people in general prefer existing over not existing, no matter what age.

Existing sucks, you want to thrive, meaning having fun, novelty, winning, and generally being a boss.

When you are old you simply don't thrive, you don't have fun, all the novelty is gone, you lose all the times, you lose your swagger because you become extremely risk averse both in your behavior in the natural environment as well as social behavior when around other people.

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