Mortgage rates for older people are higher. And if mortgage holders die, the mortgage must still be paid by the executor of an estate, which is a disincentive for anyone with a bequest motive.
I’m sure that we can find some corner case where young cancer victims with no friends/family or no regard for their friends/family act otherwise. But this hardly seems important for the point that you—yes, you—can make money by implementing the trades suggested in this piece. Which is the claim that Yudkowsky is using the cancer victim analogy to argue against.
That does not get the thought experiment through.
Mortgage rates for older people are higher. And if mortgage holders die, the mortgage must still be paid by the executor of an estate, which is a disincentive for anyone with a bequest motive.
I’m sure that we can find some corner case where young cancer victims with no friends/family or no regard for their friends/family act otherwise. But this hardly seems important for the point that you—yes, you—can make money by implementing the trades suggested in this piece. Which is the claim that Yudkowsky is using the cancer victim analogy to argue against.