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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • At the end of the day, most of what people care about isn’t age, it’s cognitive function (though age itself is important; why care about the America of 2040 if you won’t live to see it).

    Many of these people in power would fight age limits, but they are usually so sure of their abilities, that they may not fight cognitive tests with published results.

    For example, if you give someone a Montreal cognitive assessment, and their reaction to it is:

    Yes, the first few questions are easy, but I’ll bet you couldn’t even answer the last five questions. I’ll bet you couldn’t, they get very hard, the last five questions

    And those last 5 questions are:

    What month are we in? What year are we in? What day of the week is it? Where are you right now? What city are you in?

    You might think that person shouldn’t be in charge of the country.

    Oops.