Tim_Tyler comments on For The People Who Are Still Alive - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 December 2008 05:13PM

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 15 December 2008 07:32:15PM 0 points [-]

I think many value the quality of life of their friends and loved ones more than they value hypothetical far-future abstractions. This has to do with evolution's impact on psychology - and doesn't have much to do with how big the universe is.