Comment by amoghtewari on Scope Insensitivity · 2019-12-31T21:03:43.982Z · LW · GW

Could one way of thinking about this, be that, decisions for loss aversion in the nth being from oneself, get less and less sensitive as our degrees of separation increase? My example would be the indiscriminate termination of the indigenous tribes of the Americas, on its 'discovery'.