Yeah, the two things are orthogonal as far as I can see. The person-affecting view is perfectly with consistent with either a zero or a nonzero pure time preference.
Okay, so you could hold the person-affecting view and be indifferent to creating new lives, but also have zero pure time preference in that you don’t value future lives any less because they’re in the future.
So this is really getting at creating new lives vs how to treat them given that they already exist.
Yeah, the two things are orthogonal as far as I can see. The person-affecting view is perfectly with consistent with either a zero or a nonzero pure time preference.
Okay, so you could hold the person-affecting view and be indifferent to creating new lives, but also have zero pure time preference in that you don’t value future lives any less because they’re in the future.
So this is really getting at creating new lives vs how to treat them given that they already exist.