He convinced Keynes that Bayesianism was correct!
Do you have a citation or excerpt on this?
See here.
I think Ramsey is also the first (quantitative) longtermist ever (zero discount rate).
I didn’t follow the links, but how did Bentham and Mill think about future utility?
Bentham was nonzero discount apparently (fn6). (He used 5% but only as an example.)
Mill thought about personal time preference (and was extremely annoyed by people’s discount there). Can’t see anything about social rate of discounting.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ramsey/#Life
Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the ‘Life and works’ section
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He convinced Keynes that Bayesianism was correct!
Do you have a citation or excerpt on this?
See here.
I think Ramsey is also the first (quantitative) longtermist ever (zero discount rate).
I didn’t follow the links, but how did Bentham and Mill think about future utility?
Bentham was nonzero discount apparently (fn6). (He used 5% but only as an example.)
Mill thought about personal time preference (and was extremely annoyed by people’s discount there). Can’t see anything about social rate of discounting.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ramsey/#Life
Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the ‘Life and works’ section