What Is Your Maximum Probability Estimate of When Will Die, at What Age?

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Life expectancy has gone up something like two point two to two point five years per decade since 18 forty. A lot of this gained expectancy have come from people younger than 80. People who reached 80 and, say, 18 70, did only marginally worse than people who reach 80 to day. In that sense, i tend to be more pessimistic ibout many people reaching a hundred though i would give you perhaps the best chance of any one in this room.

Peter Thiel and Tyler Cowen, both New York Times bestselling authors, are among today’s top global thought leaders and influential innovators. Listen as these two engage in a serious dialogue on the ideas and policies that will shape the future of innovation and progress in the coming years and decades.

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