[amelius]

Survivor bias. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

[Cthulhu_]

I suspect this is the case for a lot of the recent influx of "do this to live longer" posts on here.

I mean there's centenarians who didn't do any of these and still got old. Daily alcohol intake, no sports, that kinda thing.

[namaria]

It's almost as if complex systems resist deterministic patterns of thinking. If only someone decades ago had written a book warning us about seeking 'silver bullets' in software development...