You could read about hyperbolic time discounting realize it makes no sense, and learn to avoid it. If you’re lucky, this process will take long enough that it will be future you doing the work.
What time scale are you looking for? When does it switch from current from future, and from future to far future?
It switches from current to future in 10-30 minutes.
Future to far-future is not a hard limit. I just meant that I want my future self’s work to eventually pay off.
An order of magnitude estimate would be nice. For example, I was thinking the first cutoff was more like a week. I was way off.
I suggest you start working now. This will mean that your current self will work, but it also will mean that your future self will probably work. The benefit to your far future self may pay off the cost to your present self. It’s only a few minutes after all.
You could read about hyperbolic time discounting realize it makes no sense, and learn to avoid it. If you’re lucky, this process will take long enough that it will be future you doing the work.
What time scale are you looking for? When does it switch from current from future, and from future to far future?
It switches from current to future in 10-30 minutes. Future to far-future is not a hard limit. I just meant that I want my future self’s work to eventually pay off.
An order of magnitude estimate would be nice. For example, I was thinking the first cutoff was more like a week. I was way off.
I suggest you start working now. This will mean that your current self will work, but it also will mean that your future self will probably work. The benefit to your far future self may pay off the cost to your present self. It’s only a few minutes after all.
That’s a good idea. It seems to work but the thought takes a little while to convincingly construct.