FormallyknownasRoko comments on Rationality is Not an Attractive Tribe - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FormallyknownasRoko 25 November 2010 01:04:26PM 0 points [-]

But why would it be rational to choose the future over the present?

It isn't rational to choose the future over the present. It isn't irrational either. Time discount is a free parameter to be chosen according to axiology. At least it would be nice if all the low-time discount people could get together in one place, and leave all the high-discount people together.