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timtyler comments on Rationalists don't care about the future - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: PhilGoetz 15 May 2011 07:48AM

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Comment author: timtyler 17 May 2011 06:22:44PM 0 points [-]

Kinda - but genes are not in practice of looking a million years ahead - they are lucky if they can see or influence two generations worth ahead - so: instrumental discounting applies here too.