cifey comments on An Especially Elegant Evpsych Experiment - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 February 2009 02:58PM

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Comment author: Aron 13 February 2009 10:05:25PM 0 points [-]

to spare anyone the effort: I presume it's because they begin having children, and only future children are relevant.

Comment author: cifey 12 July 2010 05:32:49AM 0 points [-]

One aspect, when the kids reach reproductive age they are now at least partially competition, so the parent child relationship can take on more of a sibling flavor. So loss of an 8 yr old would could cause more grief than a 18 yr old.