Interesting find on the SSA website:

The Longevity Visualizer

Runs on Win 7 and higher.

Find out how long you have left to live.

 

Bottom line: On average, your government has economic incentives to want you dead.

We can argue about the intentionality of that, but I find that "follow the money" is pretty good advice. People including bureaucrats will over time and given thousands of small decisions, eventually align their actions with the economic incentives they live under.

 

Bottom line: On average, your government has economic incentives to want you dead.

We can argue about the intentionality of that, but I find that "follow the money" is pretty good advice. People including bureaucrats will over time and given thousands of small decisions, eventually align their actions with the economic incentives they live under.

There's a whole bunch of people who'd prefer you or I dead -- some of them frequent this site.

But that wasn't the point of this thread. I thought the software was pretty neat.

 

You think actuarial tables are neat?

 

Bottom line: On average, your government has economic incentives to want you dead.

We can argue about the intentionality of that, but I find that "follow the money" is pretty good advice. People including bureaucrats will over time and given thousands of small decisions, eventually align their actions with the economic incentives they live under.

Which explains a lot about the party-line polarization Covid response policy in the U.S.

 

You think actuarial tables are neat?

In a morbid way, yes.

 

I just ran another longevity tool. It says my life expectancy is 91, so I have 20 years to go.

It tells me I could live .6 years longer by exercising a few more times per week. So let’s say 3 hours a week. Over 20 years that is .35 years of exercise. So, by exercising for .35 years I get another .25 years for other things. Is it worth it?

 

I just ran another longevity tool. It says my life expectancy is 91, so I have 20 years to go.

It tells me I could live .6 years longer by exercising a few more times per week. So let’s say 3 hours a week. Over 20 years that is .35 years of exercise. So, by exercising for .35 years I get another .25 years for other things. Is it worth it?

I run 6 miles a day. This takes a bit longer than an hour on a hot summer day (much faster at cooler temps!).

Best hour of my day. And it makes the other 23 hours better.

If it makes me live longer, that's just icing on the cake.

 

In a morbid way, yes.

I love data. So yeah, they are kind of neat.

 

I run 6 miles a day. This takes a bit longer than an hour on a hot summer day (much faster at cooler temps!).

Best hour of my day. And it makes the other 23 hours better.

If it makes me live longer, that's just icing on the cake.

Man, I envy your commitment and enjoyment of physical activity ... do you listen to music while you run?

 

Man, I envy your commitment and enjoyment of physical activity ... do you listen to music while you run?

Yesterday was Ska day.

There's no commitment. I just happen to go insane when I don't run. Just ask my wife.