At the beginning of 2032, will Jeanne Calment's record for longest documented lifespan (122 years and 164 days) still hold?
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If it's discovered that Jeanne Calment's record is false, this market resolves based on someone beating the originally stated record of 122 years and 164 days.

Brain emulations count real time only, not subjective time. Cryonic reanimations only count time spent with brain activity.

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If everyone who would be able to beat this record by 1 Jan 2032 dies, will the market resolve immediately to YES, or do we have to wait until 2032 to account for potential resurrection technology?

@LordWilmgaddark We'll have to wait, but not all the way till 2032, just until resurrection technology wouldn't suffice to break the record.

Would an uploaded person count, and would someone cryonically revived?

(My personal opinion is that uploading should count, and a revived person's age should only count time not spent in suspension)

@tom Yes to both. Uploads count real time only, not subjective time. Cryonic reanimations only count time spent with brain activity.

predicts YES

Even with AGI before 2032, this could resolve YES. Calment was a statistical outlier, and the next oldest people lived about 3 years less. So it is plausible that everyone on the list passes before the end of 2029.

How does this resolve if we get more evidence that Calment may have been a fraud?

@StephenMalina If that happens, I'll stick to the claimed record of 122 years and 164 days for the purposes of resolving this market. I've made a separate market for the other question:

There are 16 people who are currently alive and could reach that age before 2032:

  1. 2026-07-26: Lucile Randon, France

  2. 2029-08-15: María Branyas Morera, Spain

  3. 2029-09-06: Fusa Tatsumi, Japan

  4. 2030-04-20: Bessie Hendricks, US

  5. 2030-07-19: Edie Ceccarelli, US

  6. 2030-08-01: Kahoru Furuya, Japan

  7. 2030-11-03: Tomiko Itooka, Japan

  8. 2030-11-19: Inah Canabarro Lucas, Brazil

  9. 2030-11-30: Hazel Plummer, US

  10. 2030-12-01: Kimiko Ono, Japan

  11. 2031-05-08: Yasue Okai, Japan

  12. 2031-05-16: Hide Hamabe, Japan

  13. 2031-08-26: Shinobu Hayashi, Japan

  14. 2031-08-27: Annabelle Holblinger, US

  15. 2031-10-29: Shige Mineshiba, Canada

  16. 2031-11-07: Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, Venezuela

bought Ṁ10 of NO

@Yev Lucile died :(

bought Ṁ10 of NO

@Yev Branyas got COVID, and although she recovered, this probably drastically decreases her chances to reach the record age. Bessie Hendrix died.

bought Ṁ300 of NO

Kahoru passed

Maria is the closest, but she still only has ~.08% chance of even making it to 120:
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

Even assuming all dozen women left were Maria's age, they'd still only be ~1% actuarial odds any made it to 120, let alone ~122.5

bought Ṁ25 of YES

@PatMyron lol, looks like you also voted in the wrong direction like me when I made the previous comment - that would mean the record is more likely to hold

bought Ṁ111 of NO

Kimiko, Yasue, Hide, Shinobu, Annabelle, and Shige also passed, so there are actually only 6 women left rather than a dozen

@na_pewno thanks for letting me know, definitely bet in the wrong direction, definitely got confused by the question being "will nothing change?" rather than "will X happen?"

makes more sense that it was trending upwards now, basically close to a guaranteed mana interest rate question imo

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