You could have your utility function only count future events, so that you always have 100 utils at stake no matter how long you have lived...
If you’re capable of self-modification, this wouldn’t last long. Your current utility function would be better maximized if future!you would uphold it, instead of his own twisted version, so you modify yourself so that future!you would keep the same utility function.
Not necessarily. Future!you doesn’t have much control over events that happen in its past, so you don’t have much incentive to ensure that it cares about them. Also, you know that yourself 4^^^^4 years from now will not actually be only a billion years old.
Good point. My reasoning only applies to situations in which you have information that future!you doesn’t, and come to think of it, messing with future!you’s utility function seems like an odd way to handle that problem even then.
If you’re capable of self-modification, this wouldn’t last long. Your current utility function would be better maximized if future!you would uphold it, instead of his own twisted version, so you modify yourself so that future!you would keep the same utility function.
Not necessarily. Future!you doesn’t have much control over events that happen in its past, so you don’t have much incentive to ensure that it cares about them. Also, you know that yourself 4^^^^4 years from now will not actually be only a billion years old.
Perhaps the mugger claims that there were only a billion fun years.
Good point. My reasoning only applies to situations in which you have information that future!you doesn’t, and come to think of it, messing with future!you’s utility function seems like an odd way to handle that problem even then.