Well, I do have to start there, but, actually, i wanted to go different way. I will argue that immortality has different value given the different information and preferences we have.
(Because, it’s not 1 + r + r^2… it’s v(0) + v(1) r + v(2) r^2 +.… where vx is value we obtain in x-th year of our life. This can converge or diverge, it is dependent on our evaluation of v’s and ofc. r.)
Also, please don’t split it to multiple articles; and if you really have to, then please put something interesting in the first article already, don’t make it merely a teaser.
Thank you for advice, I will give my best to make it short and interesting. Though not at cost of making it unclear and therefore useless.
Well, I do have to start there, but, actually, i wanted to go different way. I will argue that immortality has different value given the different information and preferences we have.
(Because, it’s not 1 + r + r^2… it’s v(0) + v(1) r + v(2) r^2 +.… where vx is value we obtain in x-th year of our life. This can converge or diverge, it is dependent on our evaluation of v’s and ofc. r.)
Thank you for advice, I will give my best to make it short and interesting. Though not at cost of making it unclear and therefore useless.
We do not have constant utility functions, so infinite limits with respect to time are not actually that interesting.