kpreid comments on Open Thread: August 2009 - Less Wrong
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(Treating this as a survey; I am not speaking for LW.)
I am currently implemented on many layered systems whose existence in those particular forms is not logically necessary, but we don't know the details of those systems enough to know how much of "me" is in each of them.
Do I consider the tree falling with no one to hear it to make a sound?
"My implementation is buggy."
Both of your examples are incorrect assignment, and the reality is somewhere in the middle. You-which-are-thinking-about-it did not choose the action, but that "you" is in the best position to affect the future behavior and are therefore responsible — insofar as there is any knowledge of how — for reducing the chance it will happen again.
There is always a delay between cause and effect. I choose nothing except to have its effects later. Given the particular condition, "your future self will regret accepting", I must reject it now.