Meghan Sullivan
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first heard Jun 2017
last heard Jun 2017
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have these past discounting preferences either.
What are those near bias arguments?
Well, the two big arguments historically about why it's irrational to be near biased are that near biased agents are being arbitrary
And that nearby stages are messing up their lives going forward.
They're making decisions that make their lives going forward worse.
These should be maybe pretty obvious, but just
Bring it home.
Nearby stages are arbitrary because like if you think you're gonna survive to age sixty five, if you're pretty confident you're gonna live that long.
That person who has access to your retirement account is just as much you as you are now.
This gets us into some tricky issues with personal identity, but at least on a lot of views of personal identity, it's you that would get that money.
So there's something really arbitrary about saying just like just because it's gonna happen at this certain date is a reason to care less about it.
On the makes your life go worse point, you might think like prudential rationality is a matter of doing well in life, like following the kinds of principles that mean your life going forward goes well.
And agents who aren't willing to make far-sighted trade-offs have lives that go worse.
This comes back to like Aesop's fable, if you ever heard this as a kid.
So like the ants always save up for the winter, the grasshopper like plays all summer and doesn't save up anything for the winter.
And then the grasshopper is like starving when the winter comes and the ants are like, well sorry, you should have been saving up your grains.
Lives go worse if you're not willing to save up your grains.
You say, like, alright, let's go to the case of discounting the past.
Is it arbitrary to care less about things that have already happened to you than events that will happen?
In some views, this gets us into complicated issues with the nature of time, whether or not there's a really important distinction between the past and the future.
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