Vichy comments on The Pascal's Wager Fallacy Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vichy 01 June 2009 10:37:27PM *  0 points [-]

"If it is possible for an agent - or, say, the human species - to have an infinite future, and you cut yourself off from that infinite future and end up stuck in a future that is merely very large, this one mistake outweighs all the finite mistakes you made over the course of your existence." Doesn't this arbitrarily favor future events? But future-self isn't current-self, it's literally a different person. Distinguishing between desirable outcomes is tautological, your values precede evaluation.