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Wei_Dai comments on Max Tegmark on our place in history: "We're Not Insignificant After All" - Less Wrong
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Er... if you answered why you care, I'm failing to find where you did so. Listing what you care about doesn't answer the question.
I don't think it's controversial that 'why do you care about that' is either unanswerable, or answerable only in terms of something like evolution or neurochemestry, in the case of terminal values.
Byrnema had a specific objection to human values that are "arbitrary", and I think my response addressed that. To be more explicit, all values are vulnerable to the charge of being arbitrary, but seeking knowledge seems less vulnerable than others, and that seems to explain why I care more about the future than the average person. I was also trying to point out to Byrnema that perhaps she already cares more about the future than most, but didn't realize it.