I don’t see myself as doing any non-instrumental temporal discounting in the first place. So, for me personally, losing my non-instrumental temporal discounting doesn’t seem like much of a loss.
However, I do think that our temporal myopia is going to fall by the wayside. We will stop screwing over the immediate future because we don’t care about it enough. Myopic temporal discounting represents a primitive form of value—which is destined to go the way of cannibalism and slavery.
I don’t see myself as doing any non-instrumental temporal discounting in the first place. So, for me personally, losing my non-instrumental temporal discounting doesn’t seem like much of a loss.
However, I do think that our temporal myopia is going to fall by the wayside. We will stop screwing over the immediate future because we don’t care about it enough. Myopic temporal discounting represents a primitive form of value—which is destined to go the way of cannibalism and slavery.