I think the reasonable interpretation is something like: “an important motivation to overcome procrastination is to remember that my time is actually limited (so my intended ‘later’ which feels okay, could easily become ‘never’ which fills me which rage).” And the interpolation that a hypothetical immortal or extremely long-lives species would therefore procrastinate so much that they not only would accomplish/experience less per day, but maybe even in total. Like, if you are supposed to live 1000 years, the first 500 years you do not bother doing anything because there is still an insanely large—from the perspective of the human who is imagining this now—amount of time left, but during the last 500 years your habits of wasting time are already too strong to overcome.
In my imagination… if the average length of human life magically changed to 1000 years… in short term, I believe that our days would be mostly shaped by immediate incentives and social pressures, so we would continue living at current levels of productivity… but in long term, there is a risk that much of the gain would be burned in some horrible Molochian trap (such as spending 200 of those years in some future version of school system where you are forced to waste time) rather than because of individual laziness.
I think the reasonable interpretation is something like: “an important motivation to overcome procrastination is to remember that my time is actually limited (so my intended ‘later’ which feels okay, could easily become ‘never’ which fills me which rage).” And the interpolation that a hypothetical immortal or extremely long-lives species would therefore procrastinate so much that they not only would accomplish/experience less per day, but maybe even in total. Like, if you are supposed to live 1000 years, the first 500 years you do not bother doing anything because there is still an insanely large—from the perspective of the human who is imagining this now—amount of time left, but during the last 500 years your habits of wasting time are already too strong to overcome.
In my imagination… if the average length of human life magically changed to 1000 years… in short term, I believe that our days would be mostly shaped by immediate incentives and social pressures, so we would continue living at current levels of productivity… but in long term, there is a risk that much of the gain would be burned in some horrible Molochian trap (such as spending 200 of those years in some future version of school system where you are forced to waste time) rather than because of individual laziness.