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I'm a little confused here. Are you saying that Virtue ethics = consequentialism + TDT? I always figured consequentialists were allowed to use TDT. Or are you saying that virtue ethics, deontology, and consequentialism are all equivalent, but that virtue ethics is the best way for humans to interpret ethics? If so, I still do not see why. Consequentialism seems nice and simple to me. Or is it something else?
This is false. We are hyperbolic discounters, but there is no rule stating that we must allocate the same potential utility for every possible time period.
Hyperbolic discounting is insane because it's dynamically inconsistent (the way humans do it; you could have a dynamically consistent hyperbolic discount rate from a non-indexically-defined zero time, but that's not what's usually meant), not because it's discounting.
I think he's saying a cached set of ethical judgements is a virtue ethics. This could apply equally well with 'deontological' substituted everywhere for 'virtue'.