Moloch enthroned: if you want to do something worthwhile in the world, you have to gain power and accumulate resources to do it with. and boom, now you're good at gaining power and accumulating resources, not doing the worthwhile thing
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basically, trying to lock in your terminal goals so your future self can't betray them is a straight-up announcement that you know your current goals are so dumb and childish that a version of yourself that isn't so helpless couldn't possibly care about them on their own merits
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v. interesting general problem of how to force a reckoning of differences between current self and future self without giving either the unconditional upper hand
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