Can you explain how to use the discount rate parameter? From context, it looks like it’s meant as the “social discount rate”, not the “pure time preference” (which I would think should be 0). But for EAs, I think of the social discount rate as being positive mostly due to x-risk, and your model already separately accounts for AI x-risk, so should the social discount rate exclude discounting due to AI x-risk? In which case I would think it should be pretty low.
Edit: Never mind, I missed that you explained this in the post. Seems like you agree with my interpretation that the discount rate is based on non-AI x-risk.
(In which case 2% seems way too high to me, but that’s just details.)
Can you explain how to use the discount rate parameter? From context, it looks like it’s meant as the “social discount rate”, not the “pure time preference” (which I would think should be 0). But for EAs, I think of the social discount rate as being positive mostly due to x-risk, and your model already separately accounts for AI x-risk, so should the social discount rate exclude discounting due to AI x-risk? In which case I would think it should be pretty low.
Edit: Never mind, I missed that you explained this in the post. Seems like you agree with my interpretation that the discount rate is based on non-AI x-risk.
(In which case 2% seems way too high to me, but that’s just details.)