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Re: Death Clock

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Post by beardyw »

emerged wrote: post #17
vasilakisfil wrote: post #2

This is so depressing, and I am left with just over 60%.I can't imagine how someone would feel with just 10% or even less..

Mine said 61% and to me it seems like a crazy amount. It’s hard to imagine doing all the living I’ve already done all over again and then some. I think about 10 years ago I felt like I had already gotten plenty enough out of life not to feel short changed. Still love living, don’t get me wrong.

Don't worry. I've got 14% and I can assure you that years go by at an alarming rate. It started for me at 40. 50 was on me pretty quick but 60 was there before I knew it. Now it's all just a blur. Probably best to do stuff now.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by dukeofdoom »

Don't forget to plan it a little. Make to do lists and create repeatable habits. A tip from a 60%: Life's better with a kayak and a fishing pole.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by watwut »

AutumnCurtain wrote: post #50
_ttg wrote: post #30

I can't put my finger on it but I always find this modern(Americanized?) peddling of stoicism too pretentious and vapid as to be not only useless but actively off-putting to me. The fact that life is short is already central to most adults and I don't see what purpose any of these reminders serve except to seem high-minded (and annoying). The faux precision of this "clock" also bothers me but that's a different story…

To me, it rings false because the people who propagate it so rarely face "real" adversity. I would be more interested in the stoicism of a broke guy scrapping just to exist than the stoicism of rich white tech bros. Yes, everyone faces adversity of some kind, but these lectures ring so false when the lecturer sits firmly in the top 1% of global and historic wealth.

Stoicism of broke guy will be framed as passivity, laziness and cause of his brokenness in the first place. That guy is supposed to hustle.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by toss1 »

Nice as a generic reminder, but I'd really want to see it use a bit more empirical data for a semi-realistic projection of biological age/lifespan, e.g., taking into account health conditions & habits. Heck, just taking in smoking, obesity, & exercise data would make a huge difference.

Edit: Also, just he focus on what one has lost (or in this case, spent), seems a tad counterproductive to extending one's healthspan...

Re: Death Clock

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Post by dahart »

watwut wrote: post #55
bambax wrote: post #27

This conflates life expectancy at birth with your current life expectancy. Those are wildly different. They were even more different in the past when life expectancy at birth was below 30, and most healthy adults lived past 70. But they're still very different.

> most healthy adults lived past 70 Citation needed. Or, qualification of what you mean by "healthy adult".

Here you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity

Human Longevity has been around 70-80 years for thousands of years we know about, and possibly forever. It’s one of the common misunderstandings we get by learning about life expectancy.. I misunderstood it for a long time until my brother, an anthropologist, explained that there are historical records of people living to be 80 years old from a thousand and even 10,000 years ago. Life expectancy averages in a bunch of causes of early death, so it skews the average down. Longevity is what you’re left with when you factor out all the causes of early death. Life expectancy is going up because we’re eliminating the causes of early death mostly via basic medicine, clean water, washing hands, anti-bacterials. Not having wars helps. Vaccines help. Safer houses & jobs help. Etc. Longevity appears to have been increasing a little in the last century, possibly because life expectancy and longevity aren’t cleanly separable (nobody dies of old age, they eventually die of a disease or injury).

Re: Death Clock

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Post by thepaulmcbride »

Well this kinda popped off more that I expected it to!

A bit of background about this and how it was built: I started back to work this week after some time off over Christmas. This year the company I worked for decided to hold a creative week to help get us back into work. I ended up being just 3 days as we presented them all to each other on Friday.

I know this is definitely still rough around the edges, it was just something I slapped together in a few days. Conflating life expectance to where you are born is obviously not perfect, but again, only had a few days.

If anyone is interested in how it work, or wants to fix the things that annoy them about it, pull requests are welcome!

https://github.com/ThePaulMcBride/the-death-clock

Re: Death Clock

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Post by germinalphrase »

plandis wrote: post #7
gscho wrote: post #4

I have NaN time remaining?

I have “ Application error: a client-side exception has occurred” time. Perhaps I’m actually a robot and this is it :(

I receive that error as well. Specifically, after clicking the settings button at top of screen. Viewing on iPhone.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by xwdv »

dahart wrote: post #58
xwdv wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So many people are saving up their happiness for a day when they feel like they can finally be allowed to truly be happy. Sometimes, the day never comes, and the happiness has expired.

About 10 years ago I moved onto a wonderfully quiet street that has only old people. All three of my immediate neighbors (either side plus straight across the street) were couples that had just retired and had been saving for a long time in order to go traveling. Two of the men got too sick to travel and died within a year. The remaining man got sick and almost died, but he’s hanging on. He and his wife both too sick…

The early part of life is the best time to spend money on travel and experiences. In the late part of life, one should spend money on the material things that provide passive satisfaction and don’t require too much physical effort. People often get these backwards.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by trgn »

_ttg wrote: post #30

I can't put my finger on it but I always find this modern(Americanized?) peddling of stoicism too pretentious and vapid as to be not only useless but actively off-putting to me. The fact that life is short is already central to most adults and I don't see what purpose any of these reminders serve except to seem high-minded (and annoying). The faux precision of this "clock" also bothers me but that's a different story…

Let me take a try why you feel that way. (I might be wrong).

Stoicism is very easily repurposed, because it is divorced from a religious praxis, and therefore easily assimilated. It is pithy and vague enough too, its maxims can fit on a bumper sticker. "Life is short!", honk if you agree.

The appeal for stoicism today is because it is aspirational; we no longer recognize the stoic hero in ourselves and our neighbors. Yet, we would wish we could marshal the inner strength we imagine the stoics of the past possessed.

When people broadcast stoic wisdom over twitter, or memes, or ted-talks, or through any other channels that exemplify the trite and vain nature of contemporary consumer media, it seems to scream despair, rather than confidence. A toddler trying to convince themselves they are not scared in the basement, if only they say it a loud enough.

Mu hunch is that is why you find a website like this annoying. Packaged for the internet, bland, vague, fast food for the brain.

I would agree. Up to a point.

Life is short indeed, gam gam has it on a plaque above her fireplace, she bought it in a trinket shop in Gatlinburg.

What is equally important, but unsaid, is what comes after. Both the stoic and hedonist will accept the premise, but will activate it very differently. Will you dedicate yourself to the future, or will you dedicate the present to yourself. I don't think that website makes any recommendation on the matter.

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