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

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Comment author: AlexMennen 16 May 2011 09:56:08PM 3 points [-]

I feel like my concern for the well being of people I don't know does not change at all with time, but my concern for people I do know is discounted, and for myself, I discount more heavily. This seems to imply that we do not discount with increasing time but instead with decreasing association. As in, we care more about minds more similar to our own, or with whom we interact more, and our minds become more different farther in the future.