Really well done. The pacing of this second episode is very good. It's long been my goal to make it to 125. I'm curious what a simple extrapolation of the current increase in expectancy gives for the year 2100. Is there a Moore's Law for life expectancy? I look at my daughter, and wonder if she will ever have to experience advanced aging.
"Really well done. The pacing of this second episode is very good." Thank you mk. I truly appreciate the kind words and accurate observation!
I feel quite confident saying that each episode makes steady progress with both visuals and content. It's the lovely RATCHET effect at work.
Keep watching!
Thanks humanodon. (incredible name btw) /Just out of curiosity, why no faces?/ I exclude faces, as well as a lot of detail in general, for a number of reasons. Simplicity is golden. Consistency is important. And the faster the better. Designing faces for characters, along with appropriate facial expressions would just take too much time. With all this project required in the time frame set, I had to be honest with myself that my level of design skills could not maintain a consistent over all look beyond geometric shape. So Cadell and I both felt very comfortable keeping the same aesthetics as the "Are Chimps Cultural?" video and trusting that with each episode our skills would improve! As each episodes wraps up, I can feel this happening! Small amounts of confidence and skill are accumulating and bit by tiny bit the videos shall convey this! (I hope!)
Thanks! (By the way, to quote stuff, you can put these things: | around the text | but without any spaces. Also, at the top right corner of the comment field is a tiny link that says "markup" with all kinds of other stuff you can do.) The two episodes so far are pretty well put together in my opinion, so I'm interested to see how the videos develop further. That makes sense about the faces.Small amounts of confidence and skill are accumulating and bit by tiny bit the videos shall convey this! (I hope!)
Thank you humanodon.
Look at me learning and applying interwebby tactics. Thank you. I appreciate your interest very much.(By the way, to quote stuff, you can put these things:around the text but without any spaces. Also, at the top right corner of the comment field is a tiny link that says "markup" with all kinds of other stuff you can do.)
The two episodes so far are pretty well put together in my opinion, so I'm interested to see how the videos develop further.
Lish appreciates your observation! Yes, the animator of The Advanced Apes is finally a part of hubski! Great question. Aubrey de Grey has introduced an important concept that doesn't function quite like a Moore's Law, but helps us conceptualize what it will be like for us to age. He calls it "Longevity Escape Velocity" (LEV). This is a quantification of our aging that attempts to describe whether we are aging faster or slower than technological evolution. He hypothesizes that for us there will come a point where people that would normally be dying at a high rate (70-100 year olds) will start to get gradually "younger" biologically and their death rate will actually start to decrease (perhaps dramatically). When this starts to happen we'll know that we are reaching the "Longevity Escape Velocity" and that people younger than 70 will likely be aging slower than technological evolution (and will therefore have a new life expectancy of 1,000 (because this is how long you would live on average if aging didn't cause death).Really well done. The pacing of this second episode is very good.
I'm curious what a simple extrapolation of the current increase in expectancy gives for the year 2100. Is there a Moore's Law for life expectancy?