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Mod parents WAY up! I should've tried to solve this problem on my own, but I wasn't expecting it to be solved in the comments like that!
Awesome. I'm steadily upgrading my expected utilities of handing decision-theory problems to Less Wrong.
EDIT 2016: Wei Dai below is correct, this was my first time encountering this problem and I misunderstood the point Wei Dai was trying to make.
You make it sound as if you expect to expect a higher utility in the future than you currently expect...