Your other option is to sell the box to the highest bidder. That will probably be someone who’s prepared to wait longer than you, and will therefore be able to give you a higher price than the utilons you’d have got out of the box yourself. You get the utilons today.
Why does my fight-the-hypothetical module never think about that? (It does often think about options which wouldn’t be available in the Least Convenient Possible World—but not this one, until someone else points it out.)
Your other option is to sell the box to the highest bidder. That will probably be someone who’s prepared to wait longer than you, and will therefore be able to give you a higher price than the utilons you’d have got out of the box yourself. You get the utilons today.
I don’t think you are a wannabe Captain Kirk. I think you are Captain Kirk.
Why does my fight-the-hypothetical module never think about that? (It does often think about options which wouldn’t be available in the Least Convenient Possible World—but not this one, until someone else points it out.)