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Then don't.
Well, I'm also concerned about other people here doing that.
If you don't want to lose what you care about, don't change what you care about.
Isn't that what anti-akrasia does though? If I like coffee but dislike some effect of coffee and I selfmodify into some who at least doesn't drink coffee, and maybe doesn't like it anymore, then I think I've lost something for something else, but not things in an easy to parse subgoal-supergoal relationship.
A general choosing between two cities might have been a better example.
In other words, you should switch the train to the tracks with one person instead of five, but you shouldn't self modify to so that it is an easy thing to do.
The wonderful thing about the brain is that if what you get out of something is actually important to you, you probably won't succeed in getting rid of it for long, or will find some other way to get whatever you got out of it before.
(That's also the really terrible thing about the brain, since that same principle is also where akrasia and "meta" akrasia come from!)