But why would it be rational to choose the future over the present?
It isn’t rational to choose the future over the present. It isn’t irrational either. Time discount is a free parameter to be chosen according to axiology. At least it would be nice if all the low-time discount people could get together in one place, and leave all the high-discount people together.
It isn’t rational to choose the future over the present. It isn’t irrational either. Time discount is a free parameter to be chosen according to axiology. At least it would be nice if all the low-time discount people could get together in one place, and leave all the high-discount people together.