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(Not particularly related to the post, a technical quibble.)
Past beliefs/priorities/moral judgments are not the same thing as preferences of a past self. A past self can be easily mistaken with respect to its own preferences, so even closely following past self's preferences benefits from revising its conclusions. Cached thoughts pose a problem because they don't take new arguments and evidence into account, because they constitute a fixed understanding of a goal, not because they represent a fixed goal.
Agreed. I'd still like to note that on a practical level, a post like this is useful because it increases the probability that people will make the distinction you just drew, when reflecting about "Why did I think differently about cached thoughts being good when reading the original post, and this one?" It would have been more useful it if contained your comment though.