Why not? If you haven't yet decided what your goals are, being able to meet many goals is useful.
The AGI argument is that its goals might not be aligned with ours, are you saying that we should make sure that our future self's goals be aligned with our current goals?
For example, if I know I am prone to hyperbolic discounting, I should take power from my future self so it will act according to my wishes rather than its own?
Being able to meet many goals is useful. Actually meeting wrong goals is not.
Your hyperbolic discounting example is instructive, as without a model of your goals, you cannot know whether your current or future self is correct. Most people come to the opposite conclusion - a hyperbolic discount massively overweights the short-term in a way that causes regret.
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