Downvoted for (1) being an extraordinarily laborious way of saying “decaying exponential times modest-degree polynomial is rapidly decaying”, (2) only doing the laborious calculations and not mentioning why the result was pretty obvious from the outset, (3) purporting to list ways around the problem (if it is one) and not so much as mentioning “don’t discount exponentially”, (4) conflating “rationalist” with “exponentially discounting expected-utility maximizer”, and most of all (5) the horrible, horrible I-know-I’m-going-to-be-downvoted-for-this-and-you’re-all-so-stupid sympathy-fishing.
[EDITED to fix a typo: I’d numbered my points 1,2,3,5,5. Oops.]
Downvoted for (1) being an extraordinarily laborious way of saying “decaying exponential times modest-degree polynomial is rapidly decaying”, (2) only doing the laborious calculations and not mentioning why the result was pretty obvious from the outset, (3) purporting to list ways around the problem (if it is one) and not so much as mentioning “don’t discount exponentially”, (4) conflating “rationalist” with “exponentially discounting expected-utility maximizer”, and most of all (5) the horrible, horrible I-know-I’m-going-to-be-downvoted-for-this-and-you’re-all-so-stupid sympathy-fishing.
[EDITED to fix a typo: I’d numbered my points 1,2,3,5,5. Oops.]
I would have downvoted it for 5 alone, if I had enough karma to.
Unless the reference is obsolete we can make 4 downvotes per karma point. If so you must be really laying down the quality control. Bravo!