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People should discount the distant future—not because it is morally less valuable, but because the effects of their actions are very hard to anticipate over long time horizons.

Unidentified speaker · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025

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“uh it's hard to anticipate the consequences of your actions in the very distant future uh so like i would just recommend that you just discount the future not be not for like a moral reason not because like the future is worth less or something but because it's just very hard to anticipate the effects of your actions in the near term i think there are things you can do that seem like they would be beneficial like for example you could try to try to”
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