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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: MileyCyrus 28 April 2013 06:35:28AM 3 points [-]

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

Yeah, but you're not going to value what your future self is going to value unless your utility function already includes "increase future self's utility" in it.

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?

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