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Elon Musk is Wrong About Immortality

• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian Wang

"It is important for us to die because most of the time people don't change their mind, they just die," Musk said at the event. "If you live forever, we might become a very ossified society where new ideas cannot succeed."

Innovation Increases With Age

An ITIF study of the demographics of innovation finds the current peak age for innovation is 47 in the USA.

The level of innovation is found to increase as people age up until they are about 55. Successful age reversal technology will need to rejuvenate people. It will need to restore mental plasticity.

The increasing innovation as we age (until we reach a point where health and vitality deteriorates) is evidence that having more time to increase knowledge enhances the level of innovation.

Elon Musk also has the fear that if too many people live to near immortality then there will be people who do not change their minds and block progress.

Elon Musk currently is succeeding with his innovation where the average age of people is higher than it has ever been. Is Elon Musk or other innovators facing higher resistance in countries with older populations? Is there any correlation with less change from older demographics?

Japan has more old people. There is some Japanese resistance to electric cars because of entrenched business interests (Toyota and other domestic car companies.)

Europe has older populations but those countries are some of the most eager adopters of electric cars and other innovations.


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