And on the flip side of that, if past-you makes the rules so strict that they’re practically unfollowable for future-you, that also weakens the trust between the two of you, because future-you will perceive past-you as tyrannical and be less inclined to trust that the rule was actually a good idea in the first place (and therefore be less likely to follow the rules it percieves as not-so-good). So past-you has to earn the trust of future-you by making rules it expects future-you to be able to follow, and future-you has to earn the trust of past-you by following the rules past-you makes.
Yes, exactly. You can get a lot of mileage out of importing intuitions from how to build trust between people to how to build trust between your past and future selves. (For example there’s an interesting analogy between labels in romantic relationships and personal identity.)
And on the flip side of that, if past-you makes the rules so strict that they’re practically unfollowable for future-you, that also weakens the trust between the two of you, because future-you will perceive past-you as tyrannical and be less inclined to trust that the rule was actually a good idea in the first place (and therefore be less likely to follow the rules it percieves as not-so-good). So past-you has to earn the trust of future-you by making rules it expects future-you to be able to follow, and future-you has to earn the trust of past-you by following the rules past-you makes.
Yes, exactly. You can get a lot of mileage out of importing intuitions from how to build trust between people to how to build trust between your past and future selves. (For example there’s an interesting analogy between labels in romantic relationships and personal identity.)