Humans that live for a very long time, would have much higher stakes in everything. People don’t care about e.g. the climate when they are old, because they will be dead in a few dozen years anyway. Or, to put it on a higher level, people discount tail risks because of their short life.
I don’t think this is obvious. My understanding is that high expected lifespan does correlate with low time preference, which I think is at least roughly what you’re talking about here. But I don’t know what the causal chain is, or how malleable time preference is in currently living people.
I mean, It’s not a claim I will defend per say, it was more “Here’s a list of arguments I’ve already heard around the issue, to give some context to where I’m placing mine”.
I think I agree with this claim, but I’m not 100% sure by any stretch and I don’t have the required sources to make a good case for it, other than my intuition which tells me it’s right, but that’s not a very good source of truth.
I don’t think this is obvious. My understanding is that high expected lifespan does correlate with low time preference, which I think is at least roughly what you’re talking about here. But I don’t know what the causal chain is, or how malleable time preference is in currently living people.
I mean, It’s not a claim I will defend per say, it was more “Here’s a list of arguments I’ve already heard around the issue, to give some context to where I’m placing mine”.
I think I agree with this claim, but I’m not 100% sure by any stretch and I don’t have the required sources to make a good case for it, other than my intuition which tells me it’s right, but that’s not a very good source of truth.