moridinamael comments on Why is it rational to invest in retirement? I don't get it. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: moridinamael 16 May 2013 05:50:33PM 1 point [-]

I was being tongue-in-cheek, gesturing towards the basic transhumanist stance that everything will be different. What I mean is that any investments I make today are tied to many implicit assumptions about the world's trajectory over the coming years, and that I don't expect these assumptions to hold true over that time frame, especially considering the accelerating change I've observed in my lifetime so far.

None of this actually stops me from investing a reasonable amount in boring investments like index funds because I simply don't have that much stuff I want to spend money on.