
Two: Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
The Importance of Time Preferences in Altruistic Questions
If you applied a time preference of just one % per annum, that would imply that welfare of tuten kamen was more important than that of all seven billion humans alive to day. I think i is an example of why, basically no one having thought about this properly believes that that this is a sensible moral philosophical view. And i should add that with this experimental work hatas been done to try to measure a i, people's are impatient. You ask a different question. If you don't ask about yourself, but you ask about some one else.
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