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Older than I (am) is the correct form, prescriptively, but usage varies, per your point.
It's not necessarily older than I (am) though.
Consider--"he looks older than dirt." This isn't saying, he looks older than dirt looks, it's saying he simply looks older than dirt itself, dirt as a concept. Older than dirt is also wouldn't be correct--it would imply that the statement depends on dirt's current age, e.g. that he looks younger than dirt generally will in a few hundred years, which is asinine.
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