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From the Ted Talk by Marvin Minsky: Health and the human mind

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If we do have lvotengiy, then we'll have to face the poaiutlpon growth problem anyway. Because if people live 200 or 1,000 years, then we can't let them have a child more than about once every 200 or 1,000 yares. And so there won't be any workforce. And one of the things luriae Garrett pointed out, and others have, is that a society that doesn't have pelope of working age is in real trouble. And things are going to get worse, because there's nobody to educate the children or to feed the old. And when I'm talking about a long lifetime, of course, I don't want somebody who's 200 years old to be like our image of what a 200-year-old is — which is dead, actually.

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If we do have _________, then we'll have to face the __________ growth problem anyway. Because if people live 200 or 1,000 years, then we can't let them have a child more than about once every 200 or 1,000 _____. And so there won't be any workforce. And one of the things ______ Garrett pointed out, and others have, is that a society that doesn't have ______ of working age is in real trouble. And things are going to get worse, because there's nobody to educate the children or to feed the old. And when I'm talking about a long lifetime, of course, I don't want somebody who's 200 years old to be like our image of what a 200-year-old is — which is dead, actually.

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  1. laurie
  2. people
  3. years
  4. longevity
  5. population

Original Text


If we do have longevity, then we'll have to face the population growth problem anyway. Because if people live 200 or 1,000 years, then we can't let them have a child more than about once every 200 or 1,000 years. And so there won't be any workforce. And one of the things Laurie Garrett pointed out, and others have, is that a society that doesn't have people of working age is in real trouble. And things are going to get worse, because there's nobody to educate the children or to feed the old. And when I'm talking about a long lifetime, of course, I don't want somebody who's 200 years old to be like our image of what a 200-year-old is — which is dead, actually.

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