Well, according to experiments we all are, right? So maybe you could turn this around and say that the reason humans don’t like Faustian bargains is that we discount hyperbolically—and that a hypothetical race of Vulcans whose utility function is exponential would find the bargain intuitively appealing.
Well, according to experiments we all are, right? So maybe you could turn this around and say that the reason humans don’t like Faustian bargains is that we discount hyperbolically—and that a hypothetical race of Vulcans whose utility function is exponential would find the bargain intuitively appealing.