This is an extremely interesting and well written paper with a lot of complex points to unpack.

I’m really happy the bot shared it with me.

Part of the fact is that this is not necessarily a bad thing. These are life extending substances and ones that can greatly improve quality of life.

Once you are old enough to bear children and raise them to self sufficiency, evolution has very little incentive to keep you around. For long term human evolution, the 25 years number seems about right.

In any case, my depression, left untreated, is terminal. I’ve been on these pills since I was 15 or so. 25 years.

I’ll take them until I die because if I don’t, I will die.