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"Yeah, here's another free bit of knowledge:  The little tiny spirals aren't perfectly stable, they degrade little by little over time, that's part of the story behind how getting old kills you.  The tiny spirals in female and male reproductive elements are some of the most protected and best repaired in the whole body, but parents getting old before reproducing is still not good for kids.  If a man does something really impressive at 50, people try to have his kids' kids, not that guy's kids directly -"

"Unless magical healing or Restoration repairs that.  That's something we can also check by measuring the children's intelligence from existing marriages between people who have or haven't had Restorations.  Though it also implies that - adventurers? - should age more slowly, so if that's not already known to be true, maybe don't bother."

"But even if that is true, I'm not going to take ten shitting years to decide a thing.  A ten-year delay is not a trivial cost to heritage optimization in Cheliax and Golarion.  I'm not slow like a tiny cognitive snail.  I'm going to have any idea how Golarion works before ten years pass, I'll see how fast it's improving.  When I try to predict my own future decision, my first-order intuition is 70% that I say yes and that means my real probability is more like 95% given the known direction of systemic error there.  Delaying ten years on something you're 95% likely to do eventually is downright stupid.  But spotting myself ten days, that I may perhaps do."

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"Yeah, here's another bit of knowledge, I'll throw it in for free:  The little tiny spirals aren't perfectly stable, they degrade little by little over time, that's part of the story behind how getting old kills you.  The tiny spirals in female and male reproductive elements are some of the most protected and best repaired in the whole body, but parents getting old before reproducing is still not good for kids.  If a man does something really impressive at 50, people try to have his kids' kids, not that guy's kids directly -"

"Unless magical healing or Restoration repairs that.  That's something we can also check by measuring the children's intelligence from existing marriages between people who have or haven't had Restorations.  Though it also implies that - adventurers? - should age more slowly, so if that's not already known to be true, maybe don't bother."

"But even if that is true, I'm not going to take ten shitting years to decide a thing.  A ten-year delay is not a trivial cost to heritage optimization in Cheliax and Golarion.  I'm not slow like a tiny cognitive snail.  I'm going to have any idea how Golarion works before ten years pass, I'll see how fast it's improving.  When I try to predict my own future decision, my first-order intuition is 70% that I say yes and that means my real probability is more like 95% given the known direction of systemic error there.  Delaying ten years on something you're 95% likely to do eventually is downright stupid.  But spotting myself ten days, that I may perhaps do."