if longevity ever really works, it would be creating a new sort of creature with a mindset very different from a “normal”-lifespan human
Yeah. It’s like, if you imagine a world where everyone dies at the age of 25, it would seem obvious that they would be missing some psychological things, both on the individual level, and on the social level. So the same should be true in the opposite direction.
Though I wonder how much we can extrapolate from the existing data, or whether something unexpected would happen. Not all things are linear. (For example, male crime rates increase until a certain age, then decrease.) It might even depend on the specific technological ways used to increase the lifespan. (For example, would the 1000 years old vampire have the hormone levels of an average 20 years old human, or maybe 30, 50, 70? Or something completely different?)
Yeah. It’s like, if you imagine a world where everyone dies at the age of 25, it would seem obvious that they would be missing some psychological things, both on the individual level, and on the social level. So the same should be true in the opposite direction.
Though I wonder how much we can extrapolate from the existing data, or whether something unexpected would happen. Not all things are linear. (For example, male crime rates increase until a certain age, then decrease.) It might even depend on the specific technological ways used to increase the lifespan. (For example, would the 1000 years old vampire have the hormone levels of an average 20 years old human, or maybe 30, 50, 70? Or something completely different?)