Warrigal comments on What makes you YOU? For non-deists only. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 November 2009 10:01:20PM 1 point [-]

Even if we have anterograde amnesia, we certainly shouldn't disregard our future selves more than we disregard other people.

I think that we should care about ourselves over other people for whatever is the simplest reason consistent with when we do care more. It seems like the simplest reason to care about ourselves is operant conditioning.