ADDENDUM: There is an excellent post here about why the discount rate is probably not zero based on an analysis of existential risk rates. However, I think the post assumes a lot of background familiarity with the theory of discount rates, and doesn’t – for example – explicitly identify that existential risk is probably not the biggest reason to discount the future (even absent time-preference). Would an effortpost which is a deep dive into discount rates as understood by economists be helpful?
ADDENDUM: There is an excellent post here about why the discount rate is probably not zero based on an analysis of existential risk rates. However, I think the post assumes a lot of background familiarity with the theory of discount rates, and doesn’t – for example – explicitly identify that existential risk is probably not the biggest reason to discount the future (even absent time-preference). Would an effortpost which is a deep dive into discount rates as understood by economists be helpful?