Sorry, yes, LEV as you’ve defined it does not immediately lead to unbounded life expectancy. I’m not sure this is the way most people define LEV? I always thought the magic number was expected lifespan based on current mortality rates increasing by 1 yr per yr—that way everything remains well defined even when life-expectancy-accounting-for-medical-advances diverges, and we can meaningfully talk about the critical transition point.
Anyway, that’s kind of beside the point I’m trying to make: increasing rate of medical progress is not necessarily the most useful way to think about the problem, at least for now. Maybe you were already thinking of it the way I had in mind, and I just got confused by the LEV label.
Sorry, yes, LEV as you’ve defined it does not immediately lead to unbounded life expectancy. I’m not sure this is the way most people define LEV? I always thought the magic number was expected lifespan based on current mortality rates increasing by 1 yr per yr—that way everything remains well defined even when life-expectancy-accounting-for-medical-advances diverges, and we can meaningfully talk about the critical transition point.
Anyway, that’s kind of beside the point I’m trying to make: increasing rate of medical progress is not necessarily the most useful way to think about the problem, at least for now. Maybe you were already thinking of it the way I had in mind, and I just got confused by the LEV label.