The common EA response is moral uncertainty: yeah, maybe that logically follows, but maybe we should be discounting future people, so let's still care about the present in case we're wrong.
At any rate, this becomes a serious problem when we start talking about "we already put 2% of GDP towards helping the distant future, should we really be increasing this? At the moment this is so fringe that we're not thinking long term enough even if you do apply a discount rate.
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The common EA response is moral uncertainty: yeah, maybe that logically follows, but maybe we should be discounting future people, so let's still care about the present in case we're wrong.
At any rate, this becomes a serious problem when we start talking about "we already put 2% of GDP towards helping the distant future, should we really be increasing this? At the moment this is so fringe that we're not thinking long term enough even if you do apply a discount rate.
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