A relevant phrase is “temporal discounting”, although I’m not sure how helpful it’d be to know that (if you don’t already).
A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Motivation might be helpful, but I’m skeptical about that being helpful as well. For the people who read posts like that, I don’t get the sense that they then turn around and win more than the rest of us. I think the harsh reality is just that this is a really hard problem that we haven’t made much progress on yet, and that the same thing is true for a lot of things in the field of instrumental rationality.
A relevant phrase is “temporal discounting”, although I’m not sure how helpful it’d be to know that (if you don’t already).
A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Motivation might be helpful, but I’m skeptical about that being helpful as well. For the people who read posts like that, I don’t get the sense that they then turn around and win more than the rest of us. I think the harsh reality is just that this is a really hard problem that we haven’t made much progress on yet, and that the same thing is true for a lot of things in the field of instrumental rationality.