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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Value Locking In

I think we mistake distance for unreality, right? Like the fact that something is far away from us makes part of our brain suspect that it may not quite exist. And this is again, I think this has changed fairly categorically with respect to space where you just can't really imagine that the people suffering over in Yemen don't exist. But it's much harder to assimilate this new intuition with respect to time because in this case, we are talking about people who don't actually exist.

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