Age experience

According to LessWrong philosopher Katja Grace, there's something quietly strange about aging: nobody has ever been the exact age they are right now. It's their first day. A fifty-year-old has spent decades being younger—all of their experience points backward. And that peculiarity affects all of us: we're each improvising what our age looks like without ever having rehearsed it before. Grace suggests this might explain why 'acting your age' seems to shift over generations. Today's forty-five-year-olds have reference points from how previous forty-five-year-olds behaved, but they're also used to acting younger than that. We're all just learning, one year at a time.

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