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  • Outrunning Ageing

    Every year you live, medicine gets a little better, and every year you age by one. For a person in middle age, ageing still wins by most of a year. I built Outrunning Ageing to ask when, if ever, medical repair overtakes ageing. It breaks the question into forty-four specific treatments on eight branches, gives each a test and a range of years, and plays the tree out two hundred thousand times. As of 17 October 2026 the middle estimate is 2058, with a 4.1 percent chance before 2050. Beside the year sits a dated log of who promised what and when, scored as the dates pass, and a weekly reading of the news that moves a number only when the evidence does.

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