Gurkenglas comments on Open thread, Jul. 04 - Jul. 10, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gurkenglas 05 July 2016 06:22:05PM *  0 points [-]

a hyperbolic discount massively overweights the short-term in a way that causes regret.

I meant that - when planning for the future, I want my future self to care about each absolute point in time as much as my current self does, or barring that, to only be able to act as if it did, hence the removal of power.

The correct goal is my current goal, obviously. After all, it's my goal. My future self may disagree, prefering its own current goal. Correct is a two-place word.

If I let my current goal be decided by my future self, but I don't know yet what it will decide, then I should accomodate as many of its possible choices as possible.