RolfAndreassen comments on Faustian bargains and discounting - Less Wrong

12 Post author: RolfAndreassen 29 January 2012 05:10AM

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 30 January 2012 04:58:55AM 1 point [-]

Ah. Very good point. I hadn't actually checked that hyperbolic discounting would have the property of integrating to a constant. I assumed that since it falls faster than exponential, the integral would be smaller - but it only falls faster initially.