srn347 comments on Hazing as Counterfactual Mugging? - Less Wrong
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This seems a lot like the problem of choosing whether to procrastinate or not, with "haze" corresponding to "procrastinate" and the negation of the former corresponding to the negation of the latter. Your greatest preference is for your past self to have already not procrastinated, second is your current self procrastinates (given that your past self already has), and your least preference is your current self breaks the habit. The reflectively consistent move is to not procrastinate/haze, unconditionally (though with others, it should be based upon whether your decision correlates with theirs rather than unconditionally).