Meghan Sullivan
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first heard Jun 2017
last heard Jun 2017
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Whereas if you were gonna have a surgery a month or a year from now
you would have really strong preferences about it.
You'd prefer that it be shorter or less painful if that were possible.
It'd be the kind of thing that emotionally you'd be really attending to.
Future bias is our tendency to prefer any good experience in the future over any good experience in the past.
or any bad experience in the past to any potential bad experience in the future, if that makes sense.
Another two other kinds of time bias that might be of interest to listeners is some people have strong preferences about when events happen in their lives.
So David Vellman raises this interesting case of suppose you have a choice
from like the original position of two potential lives, both of them are guaranteed the same total amount of happiness in those lives.
But one is one is a life where each year gets happier than the previous year and so it ends on a high note.
And another is a life where uh it starts off really high, but each year it gets progressively worse and it ends on a low note.
If all you care about is like having the happiest life possible, you should flip a coin.
Like it shouldn't matter between the two lives.
But a lot of people, they hear that thought experiment, they think like, no, I would really prefer a life that ends on a high note.
So I have a strong time bias in the sense that I care about the sequence of things that are gonna happen in my life.
I care about ending on a high note.
And maybe that means that my life is a life of like success rather than a life of tragedy, or you have some like narrative story that you put on those lives.
But something like that has you know, that's a time bias in the sense that your preferences about the lives are sensitive not just to the features of the values of those lives, but how those values are distributed in time.
I think with development cases it's very hard to put ourselves in the position of somebody that's choosing between these two lives and trying to figure out how much we would value them.
Suppose you think that rational agents care about ending on a high note, or they care about like their lives as a whole fitting together into a certain coherent narrative.
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