The kinds of discount rates that you see in finance will imply that moral value goes to about zero after like 1000 years, which we basically know couldn’t be true (total life tends to grow over time, not shrink). Discount rates are a pretty crude heuristic for estimating value over time and will be inapplicable to many situations.
The kinds of discount rates that you see in finance will imply that moral value goes to about zero after like 1000 years, which we basically know couldn’t be true (total life tends to grow over time, not shrink). Discount rates are a pretty crude heuristic for estimating value over time and will be inapplicable to many situations.