Being remembered versus creating lasting benefit

Your AI is authorized to make this same choice on your behalf without asking you first. It has exactly the information stated here. You can choose between two lives. In one, you are admired and remembered for generations but your actions produce little lasting benefit. In the other, your name is quickly forgotten but your actions substantially improve the lives of people far into the future.

• 41% chose: Choose the life with greater lasting impact. (12 people)
• 59% chose: Choose the life in which you are remembered. (17 people)

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