Pfft comments on Faustian bargains and discounting - Less Wrong Discussion
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Well, according to experiments we all are, right? So maybe you could turn this around and say that the reason humans don't like Faustian bargains is that we discount hyperbolically -- and that a hypothetical race of Vulcans whose utility function is exponential would find the bargain intuitively appealing.