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Time Matters

Undeceptions with John Dickson

CHAPTER

The Protagoras - Is That a Rational Preference?

We know that we tend to care more about events when they're nearby and less about them when they're further away. Another kind of temporal bias is one that philosophers have agonized about, and psychologists and economists have had less to say on over the years. And this is what we might call our bias towards the present and future, or our bias against the past.

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