Meghan Sullivan

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Elucidations · Episode 97: Meghan Sullivan discusses time biases · 11 Jun 2017 podcast

But at least some philosophers throughout history have thought, yeah, that is pretty arbitrary.

So you see like Lucretius giving his famous argument about why you shouldn't be afraid of death, and the argument goes like this.

You know, some people think that they're afraid of death because there's gonna be this huge experiential blank after they die.

Like the world is gonna keep going forward.

And they're not gonna be a part of the story anymore.

They're not gonna be able to do fun activities with their relatives, they're not gonna be any part of world history.

This is kind of like the fear of missing out version of the fear of death, like the FOMO version of the fear of death.

Lucretia says, like, okay, if that's why you fear death, well think.

There was this huge expanse of human history before you were even born, where you weren't a part of things.

You weren't a part of the story, you weren't having good experiences, you weren't interacting with members of your family.

Do you wake up in the middle of the night in a cold existential terror when you think about that?

No.

That's not something many of us are afraid of.

It's not something that evokes really strong emotions in us.

It's not something we have strong preferences about.

In fact, I think a lot of us feel like, man, if I'd been born like the idea of preferring to have been born earlier kind of creeps me out.

Like the idea of me being alive in the seventies kind of creeps me out.

It's definitely not something I want.

Lucretia says, look.

The past that you missed out on is exactly similar in every normative respect you could care about as the future that you missed out on.

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