Oddbean new post about | logout
 Analysis too simplistic. Time preference is a gradiant and no ends can be "high time preference," only means. If the goal is to not have current systems the means could be several actions falling on the time preference spectrum. They also have various levels of efficacy. literally "burning down the system" is not only ineffective but also high timeprefence to the ends of emotional satisfaction, assuming success. Reducing the system to irrelevance by creating and using a superior system "burns the system down" metaphorically but is vastly more efficacious and directly accomplishes the ends.