Given that very few people are signed up for cryonics, being inconsistent with support cryonics doesn’t seem like much of a reductio in general. It seems plausible to me that part of the reason people don’t sign up is the far future doesn’t seem ‘real’ to them, which is sort of like discounting.
Thanks for your comment. Do you think that, for the people “don’t sign up is the far future doesn’t seem ‘real’ to them”, it would be equivalent to pure time prefence? I mean, they would bite the bullet and say “True, experiences in the future are less valuable than in the past, even if it’s me having them?”
I don’t rule out this possibility, but I think it might be important to clarify why people discount the future; I don’t see much problem in discounting the future because of uncertainty—e.g., the risk of death / extinction, or the risk that a project may be unsuccessful. But we might reduce uncertainty—not “pure time preference”
Given that very few people are signed up for cryonics, being inconsistent with support cryonics doesn’t seem like much of a reductio in general. It seems plausible to me that part of the reason people don’t sign up is the far future doesn’t seem ‘real’ to them, which is sort of like discounting.
Thanks for your comment.
Do you think that, for the people “don’t sign up is the far future doesn’t seem ‘real’ to them”, it would be equivalent to pure time prefence? I mean, they would bite the bullet and say “True, experiences in the future are less valuable than in the past, even if it’s me having them?”
I don’t rule out this possibility, but I think it might be important to clarify why people discount the future; I don’t see much problem in discounting the future because of uncertainty—e.g., the risk of death / extinction, or the risk that a project may be unsuccessful. But we might reduce uncertainty—not “pure time preference”