Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe)
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The Discount Rate Should Be Much Lower and We Should Care a Lot More About People in the Distant Future
Ykow o, on this particular cultural point, cause you even more concern because 500 a thousand, five thousand years time, were were not just slightly, but enormously limited. You wrote with with derick parfet am back in the early nineties about how we should, you know, our intuitions baut the discount rate we should have for the future, are wrong. The discount rate should be much lower, and we should care away more about people in the distant future. And if you believe that, shouldn't that?
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