Peter_de_Blanc comments on Reference Points - Less Wrong

32 Post author: lionhearted 17 November 2010 08:09AM

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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 17 November 2010 09:22:15AM 1 point [-]

Discount rate for what?

The economic model is that your utility function (over world histories) is the integral over all time of a quantity that depends only on the instantaneous state of the world times a quantity that depends only on the time index. Typically this latter quantity is of the form e^(-kt), and k is called the discount rate.