All maximizations are going to take place in the future: they already haven’t taken place up to the present.
Your complaint is that “that thing”, the future you, isn’t similar enough to the present you. Fair enough. It’s hard to say anything about maximizing your utility as it is now if we assume zero knowledge about your utility function.
That isn’t maximising my utility. That is maximising the utility of some other thing in the future.
All maximizations are going to take place in the future: they already haven’t taken place up to the present.
Your complaint is that “that thing”, the future you, isn’t similar enough to the present you. Fair enough. It’s hard to say anything about maximizing your utility as it is now if we assume zero knowledge about your utility function.