So, this is an interesting one. I could make the argument that UDT would actually suggest taking the opposite of the one you like currently.
It depends on how far you think the future (and yourself) will extend. You can reason that if you were to like both hummus and avocado, you should take both. The problem as stated doesn’t appear to exclude this.
If you know the information observed about humans that we tend to get used to what we do repeatedly as part of your prior, then you can predict that you will come to like (whichever of avocado or hummus that you don’t currently like), if you repeatedly choose to consume it.
Then since there’s no particular reason why doing this would make you later prefer the other option less (and indeed, a certain amount of delayed gratification can increase later enjoyment), in order to achieve the most total utility you would take either both together if you predicted you would like that more at the immediate decision point, or if you are indifferent between both and the unappealing one, then you should take only the unappealing one because doing that more often will allow you to later obtain more utility.
I think this would be the recommendation of UDT if the prior were to say that you would face similar choices to this one “sufficiently often”.
This is why, for example, I almost always eat salads/greens or whichever part of a meal is less appealing before the later, more enjoyable part—you get more utility both immediately (over the course of the meal) and long term by not negatively preferring the unappealing food option so much.
So, this is an interesting one. I could make the argument that UDT would actually suggest taking the opposite of the one you like currently.
It depends on how far you think the future (and yourself) will extend. You can reason that if you were to like both hummus and avocado, you should take both. The problem as stated doesn’t appear to exclude this.
If you know the information observed about humans that we tend to get used to what we do repeatedly as part of your prior, then you can predict that you will come to like (whichever of avocado or hummus that you don’t currently like), if you repeatedly choose to consume it.
Then since there’s no particular reason why doing this would make you later prefer the other option less (and indeed, a certain amount of delayed gratification can increase later enjoyment), in order to achieve the most total utility you would take either both together if you predicted you would like that more at the immediate decision point, or if you are indifferent between both and the unappealing one, then you should take only the unappealing one because doing that more often will allow you to later obtain more utility.
I think this would be the recommendation of UDT if the prior were to say that you would face similar choices to this one “sufficiently often”.
This is why, for example, I almost always eat salads/greens or whichever part of a meal is less appealing before the later, more enjoyable part—you get more utility both immediately (over the course of the meal) and long term by not negatively preferring the unappealing food option so much.