I had a very similar thought a while back, but was thinking more of best possible current versions of myself.
You said this:
I think your coherent, extrapolated self may know things you don’t know, and may have learned that some of your goals were misguided. Because your ability to communicate with them is bottlenecked on your current skills and beliefs, I can’t vouch for the advice they might give.
I called it “Coherent Extrapolated Niplav”, where I was sort-of having a conversation with CEN, and since it was CEN, it was also sympathetic to me (after all, my best guess is that if I was smarter, thought longer etc., I’d be sympathetic to other people’s problems!).
I had a very similar thought a while back, but was thinking more of best possible current versions of myself.
You said this:
I called it “Coherent Extrapolated Niplav”, where I was sort-of having a conversation with CEN, and since it was CEN, it was also sympathetic to me (after all, my best guess is that if I was smarter, thought longer etc., I’d be sympathetic to other people’s problems!).