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Hey taw, did you write a code to present yourself with lotteries, log your choices, and compute your utilities?
I ordered the choices until I was happy about them (that part wasn't too difficult as they're mostly chronological). Then I did "if I was about to live in nth, and there was a time machine that with p% moved me to n+1th, and otherwise to n-1th era, what would p need to be for me to take it" kind of lottery thinking.
Conversion of these to utilities was done by Ruby code in the post.