endoself comments on Rationalists don't care about the future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: endoself 15 May 2011 12:36:09PM 8 points [-]

Among other things, this means we might not want to turn the Universe over to a rational expected-utility maximizer.

So this is just a really long way of saying that your utility function doesn't actually include temporal discounting.