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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Not buying a box of doughnuts to constrain my future self may say something about my willpower or trust in my ability to make good decisions. But present-me's goal "don't eat a box of doughnuts" probably isn't more childish or dumb than future-me's "eat lots of tasty doughnuts".
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When Faramir says "Not if I saw it on the highway would I take it", is he discounting the presumed greater knowledge of future-Faramir of whether to use the Ring, or anticipating that circumstances & desperation (and in that case supernatural temptation) might erode his judgment?
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future-me might also be worse than present-me, at least for temporary periods indeed, my most successful life strategy is to use the times when I can do things to hedge against the inevitable times I can't
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Also possibly the realization that accumulation of power can activate negative attributes that could not be as easily or effectively activated previously. A call to grounding, or to figure out what grounding looks like when combined with capability.
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I like that. They'll supposedly be smart/capable enough to accomplish those goals, but not so much so as to select better goals...
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If you can mature out of them, they weren't your terminal goals. Evolution is not your friend. It's pathetic if you think it is.
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"If you can mature out of them, they weren't your terminal goals" is exactly your adversarial future self's (most basic) argument. It means insofar as they will determinately exist - ie. relevantly distinct from you existing now - it forecloses your access to terminality
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