I don't really give a fuck what people regret or not on their deathbed. That's the moment when you're least objective about evaluating your life. Next week's Jacob will be happy I worked on these regulatory reports today and he's much closer to me than octogenarian dying Jacob.
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Replying to @yashkaf @michaelkeenan_0
Next week's Joe will always be glad this week wasn't the week Joe left the comfortable-but-boring job, the relationship that isn't working, the apartment that's suboptimal. Not saying octogenarian Joe has all the answers, but neither of these are time horizons that fully own Joe.
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Replying to @webdevMason @michaelkeenan_0
Of course. The real Joe is an integral over all future timelines of Joe's experiencing selves weighted by probability of existing, level of consciousness, and similarity to current Joe. But we ain't ready to have that conversation yet
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By the way, I was very happy the day after I quit my boring job, a week after I moved apartments, and a month after my relationship that wasn't working broke up with me. It doesn't take decades' wisdom to break out of status-quo bias.
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Replying to @yashkaf @michaelkeenan_0
If you're able to avoid semi-durable pain, discomfort or anxiety during periods of personal upheaval, it probably explains why you need to bias your horizons in certain ways that aren't as helpful to more typical people
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Replying to @webdevMason @michaelkeenan_0
Sure. Some need advice on lengthening their time preference and some need the reverse advice, as with all advice. But the "deathbed" trope is still silly. People who'll only realize basic life wisdom in the shadow of impending death should take more mushrooms while they're alive.
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I think that's the pragmatic takeaway? Not so much that you appease your deathbed self, but that if you can surmise his regrets they will probably give you some information about what sort of things are consistently hard to arrange in the medium term but very valuable to you
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