If you accuse me of irrationality, I shouldn’t be able to respond by saying “Well, my actions look irrational according to my utility function, but you should be evaluating them using Steve’s utility function, not mine.”
No, but you should be able to respond “Well, my actions look irrational according to Steve’s utility function, but you should be evaluating them using my utility function, not his,” or similarly, “Well, my actions look irrational according to future!me’s utility function, but you should be evaluating them using present!me’s utility function, not his,”
Is it future!me’s or future!my? Somehow, my English classes never went into much depth about characterization tags.
Your decisions aren’t totally instantaneous. You depend at on at least a little of future!you and past!you before you could really be thought of as much in the way of a rational agent, but that doesn’t mean that you should think of future!you from an hour later as exactly the same person. It especially doesn’t mean that you after you wake up the next morning is the same as you before you go to sleep. Those two are only vaguely connected.
Well, “only vaguely” is a massive understatement. There’s a helluva lot of mutual information between me tomorrow and me today, much, much more than between me today and you today.
No, but you should be able to respond “Well, my actions look irrational according to Steve’s utility function, but you should be evaluating them using my utility function, not his,” or similarly, “Well, my actions look irrational according to future!me’s utility function, but you should be evaluating them using present!me’s utility function, not his,”
Is it future!me’s or future!my? Somehow, my English classes never went into much depth about characterization tags.
Your decisions aren’t totally instantaneous. You depend at on at least a little of future!you and past!you before you could really be thought of as much in the way of a rational agent, but that doesn’t mean that you should think of future!you from an hour later as exactly the same person. It especially doesn’t mean that you after you wake up the next morning is the same as you before you go to sleep. Those two are only vaguely connected.
Well, “only vaguely” is a massive understatement. There’s a helluva lot of mutual information between me tomorrow and me today, much, much more than between me today and you today.
Yeah, but there’s no continuity.
What do you mean? The differences between me now and me in epsilon seconds are of order epsilon, aren’t they?