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Are most of the hard choices you face ones with known factual outcomes? The future-self approach seems to rely on that.
Nope. Hard choices will have outcomes, but I don't know them in advance, and can't always be sure of them even in retrospect. That doesn't keep me from imagining how I'll feel about the decision if I find myself in each cell of the matrix of options and outcomes.