Well, I was arguing that we should discount in proportion to our uncertainty. And it seems you’re pretty confident that it would kill future people (and more people, and we don’t expect people in 10K years to want to die anymore than people in 100 years), so I think I would prefer to plant the 100 years landmine.
That said, expectations of technological progress, that the future would be more resilient, that they can better deal with the landmine, etc. means that in practice (outside the thought experiment), I’ll probably plant the 10K landmine as I expect less people to actually die.
Well, I was arguing that we should discount in proportion to our uncertainty. And it seems you’re pretty confident that it would kill future people (and more people, and we don’t expect people in 10K years to want to die anymore than people in 100 years), so I think I would prefer to plant the 100 years landmine.
That said, expectations of technological progress, that the future would be more resilient, that they can better deal with the landmine, etc. means that in practice (outside the thought experiment), I’ll probably plant the 10K landmine as I expect less people to actually die.