The speaker emphasizes the need to return to data and measurements when faced with complex questions like the possibility of living to the age of 250. They express the futility of trying to contemplate such questions in the current era of rapid change. The speaker highlights that the pace of change in the present time is unprecedented in human history, leading to the need for society to reconcile with the implications of such rapid change at a social, psychological, and societal level.

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