Decius comments on Three more ways identity can be a curse - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 28 April 2013 05:54:44AM *  9 points [-]

You can't make decisions based on what your future self would value

Why not? There's at least one predictable value shift I can think of coming from human biology, namely puberty, that a hypothetical prepubescent rationalist should absolutely take into account when planning sufficiently far into the future.

Comment author: Decius 29 April 2013 05:13:29AM 1 point [-]

There's another value shift that every non-cyronicist has along with every believer in the second law of thermodynamics. Should we take that value shift into account while we live?