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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 July 2016 06:03:51PM 1 point [-]

On a personal level, my intuition is not to discount at all, i.e. my happiness in 50 years is worth exactly the same as my happiness in the present.

Do you think you actually behave that way on a system one level?

Comment author: AstraSequi 21 July 2016 03:25:30AM *  0 points [-]

I can think of example where I behaved both ways, but I haven't recorded the frequencies. In practice, I don't feel any emotional difference. If I have a chocolate bar, I don't feel any more motivated to eat it now than to eat it next week, and the anticipation from waiting might actually lead to a net increase in my utility. One of the things I'm interested in was whether there's anyone else who feels this way, because it seems to contradict my understanding of discounting.