All you rationality mavens, with/without prefixes (vanilla, bounded-, biased-, post-, meta-)... Has anyone ever properly studied mortal-rationality? Reasoning bounded by the belief that you will certainly die within a period T, as will your descendants?
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In Tempo, I explicitly framed my models as “all life choices are among options that end with our individual deaths” Providing a reasonable account of why we care about “posterity” and “legacy” is a basic problem in mortal rationality. Suicide is of course the e. coli problem.
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Big life project to-do... need to do a 2nd edition of Tempo. I haz significant updates
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Yes, this is probably why people have time discounting and bounded utility functions. That said, zero discounting and unbounded utility functions are both probably mathematically incoherent as well -- which just suggests that absolute immortality is mathematically impossible.
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