The answer is, as always, “it depends.” Seriously , though- I time discount to an extent, and I don’t want to stop totally. I prefer more happiness to less, and I don’t want to stop. (I don’t care about ending date, and I’m not sure why I would want to). If a trade off exists between starting date, quality, and duration of a good situation, I’ll prefer one situation over the other based on my utility function. A better course of action would be to try and get more information about my utility function, rather than debating which value is more sacred than the rest.
The answer is, as always, “it depends.” Seriously , though- I time discount to an extent, and I don’t want to stop totally. I prefer more happiness to less, and I don’t want to stop. (I don’t care about ending date, and I’m not sure why I would want to). If a trade off exists between starting date, quality, and duration of a good situation, I’ll prefer one situation over the other based on my utility function. A better course of action would be to try and get more information about my utility function, rather than debating which value is more sacred than the rest.
...Which, of course, this post also accomplishes. On second thought, continue!