Living in the 'fast world' (myopic timeline perspective) reduces emotional investment in others' futures because you dismiss their plans as futile or feel less happiness for positive events (engagements, births) and less grief for deaths because everything ends soon anyway; this distorts relationships and reduces emotional authenticity.

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Speaker

Sarah Hastings Woodhouse

Evidence Quote

if you have this very like myopic sense of the world, then you kind of end up caring less about other people... if a friend gets engaged... you're not as happy for them

Source

AI Timelines and Human Psychology (with Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse)Future of Life Institute
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:16:09 AM

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