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"Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Is there any serious attempt to apply Science Fiction methods
> to Actuarial Science?
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> It amazes me that Actuarial Science takes a cohort of people
> in their 20s and then projects their economical future until
> they die - which may happen 100 years from now.
>
> Alberto Monteiro the Astrologer
Not really following you here. I don't think it's amazing - I
think it works, as evidenced by the fact that the life insurance
is a viable business which at the very least shows that it's a
more rational model of calculating life spans than most people
use.
Are you referring to people like Aubrey de Grey and his SENS, or
the so-called actuarial escape velocity?
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Gwern
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