What Is Hyperbolic Discounting?

The more you discount, the less salient something is. It's not jus universal amongst human beings, it's universal across many species. What does this mechanism look like? Ok, so this is called discounting. Discounting is how much you are reducing the saliente of a stimulus. So we know why this is here. Why? But why does this have so much more power than this? Well, the there's actually an important reason,. This has to do with some work started by ainsley and others on what's called hyperbolic discounting, or temporal discounting.