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your risk of dying function determines the frontier between units devoted to hedonism and units devoted to continuation of experience.
Ok, but which side of the frontier is which?
I have seen people argue that we discount the future since we fear dying, and therefore are devoted to instannt hedonism. But if there were no reason to fear death, we would be willing to delay gratification and look to the glorious future.