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#292 - How Much Does the Future Matter?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Fanaticism Problem

If you've got decision theory that says you should give the wallet to the mugger, then something has gone badly wrong. There's a long religious tradition that says you can get infinite amounts of value via heaven. And I know of zero people who have done that. We don't know what the right answer is, but it's not that. The argument for concern about the long term future is more like the risks of dying in a car crash and much less like the one in a billion billion Pascal's mugging kind of risk.

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