After reading that, I came up with what something that seems like either a fourth sub question, or something that relates back to the first sub question.
4: What if, in the future when you wake up, some or all of your current goals actually are either irrelevant, or impossible? Do you have enough goals of enough different types that you can cope with this?
This allows a type of something that you might call goal insurance, to avoid problems of anything from “My goals all require working limbs and none of my limbs work, my goals all involved traveling to famous landmarks which have been demolished, my goals all involved seeing these people, all of whom are now dead, my goals all involved solving these societal problems, which are now solved.”
On the other hand, if you have all four of those types of goals, it seems much less likely for you to wake up and find:
1: You have no working limbs AND
2: The landmarks had been demolished AND
3: The people are all dead AND
4: All of the societal problems are solved.
This is why it seems to relate back to subquestion 1. In my mind, you would want to try to transmit ALL your goals to your future self, and you would also want to include some kind of priorities with them so you know approximately what order to do them in, since there might be goals you would want to be reminded of every day, and other goals that you would just want to do whenever you could get around to them.
After reading that, I came up with what something that seems like either a fourth sub question, or something that relates back to the first sub question.
4: What if, in the future when you wake up, some or all of your current goals actually are either irrelevant, or impossible? Do you have enough goals of enough different types that you can cope with this?
This allows a type of something that you might call goal insurance, to avoid problems of anything from “My goals all require working limbs and none of my limbs work, my goals all involved traveling to famous landmarks which have been demolished, my goals all involved seeing these people, all of whom are now dead, my goals all involved solving these societal problems, which are now solved.”
On the other hand, if you have all four of those types of goals, it seems much less likely for you to wake up and find:
1: You have no working limbs AND
2: The landmarks had been demolished AND
3: The people are all dead AND
4: All of the societal problems are solved.
This is why it seems to relate back to subquestion 1. In my mind, you would want to try to transmit ALL your goals to your future self, and you would also want to include some kind of priorities with them so you know approximately what order to do them in, since there might be goals you would want to be reminded of every day, and other goals that you would just want to do whenever you could get around to them.
Edit: Typo Fix