AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.

That is the subject of George Ainslie's work, which has not really been well-understood or integrated. The author mentions "making trades with your future self" which suggests he's read Ainslie, but also says "This is easier if your preferences aren’t contradictory", but the whole point of Ainslie is that our preferences are contradictory and the only reason we have selves at all is to enable intertemporal bargaining.

I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I’m Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. “What about getting up after five hours sleep?,” oh that’s Morning Guy’s problem. That’s not my problem, I’m Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want. So you get up in the morning, you’re exhausted, groggy. . . oooh I hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There’s nothing Morning Guy can do. The only thing Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy loses his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore.

"That's a problem for future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy." (see future self )

Aspiration distinguished from ordinary agency; it involves setting new goals, not merely acting towards existing ones. It's meta IOW. And interestingly problematic from a square philosophical sense, because how can a present self act in order to give a future self goals it doesn't have now?

future self

06 Aug 2022 - 25 Dec 2025

It is altruistic to make things easier for your future self, since he is in no position to return the favor.
— Sport of Brahma (@SportOfBrahma) November 18, 2021

Commitment is trying to make future self the slave of present self. Naturally future self rebels against its would-be master from the past
— Slope of Function (@SlopeOfFunction) July 26, 2017

Not sure why I keep trying to command Future Self when Present Self doesn't much care to listen to Past Self.
— Slope of Function (@SlopeOfFunction) April 30, 2016

Todo lists are magick for boring people. Your present self casting spells to constrain your future self.
— Sport of Brahma (@SportOfBrahma) November 7, 2021

To learn anything requires betraying your current ignorant self in favor of some more attractive but imaginary future self.
— Sport of Brahma (@SportOfBrahma) May 28, 2018

I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I’m Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. “What about getting up after five hours sleep?,” oh that’s Morning Guy’s problem. That’s not my problem, I’m Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want. So you get up in the morning, you’re exhausted, groggy . . . oooh I hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There’s nothing Morning Guy can do. The only thing Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy loses his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore.