Also, having that extra 4 years in the middle could allow you to make more changes to the world sooner, and have an effect on a larger portion of the future light cone.
...also making changes to yourself that you have longer time to benefit from. I think you had this in mind, but ‘changes to the world’ obscures the point a bit.
BTW, this ‘life arbitrage’ was not my main point, I was trying to highlight the biases that would prevent a person from calculating ‘quantity of life’ correctly even if it was +4/-1 vs +4/-4. This is a valuable related point nevertheless.
Also, having that extra 4 years in the middle could allow you to make more changes to the world sooner, and have an effect on a larger portion of the future light cone.
+1
...also making changes to yourself that you have longer time to benefit from. I think you had this in mind, but ‘changes to the world’ obscures the point a bit.
BTW, this ‘life arbitrage’ was not my main point, I was trying to highlight the biases that would prevent a person from calculating ‘quantity of life’ correctly even if it was +4/-1 vs +4/-4. This is a valuable related point nevertheless.