Oligopsony comments on Faustian bargains and discounting - Less Wrong Discussion
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If your intuition is that 10^130 years of pleasure upfront don't cancel out an infinity of pain afterwards, then your utility function just doesn't discount in the way that you're describing. Doesn't preclude that some people's might (to the extent that humans have utility functions.)