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All you can do in science is discover something before someone else discovers it.
To my mind, time-discounting feels like a major reason for doing science. It's better for humanity to discover stuff earlier rather than later. For a particularly clear-cut example, there's obvious instrumental value in discovering penicillin 20 years earlier.