What’s the best way to be effectively selfish, if you don’t discount your future self?
I was talking to someone who’s not at all altruistic the other day and it seemed like the actual actions it’s reasonable for us to take aren’t that different. If there’s a 1 bp chance you could live a happy life that lasts for a billion years, that still dominates anything you do to increase your happiness during your natural lifespan. I’d guess there’s only so much you can do to increase your personal chances of living a very long time without affecting anyone else’s (exercise? cryonics? asking random AI researchers to simulate you?). Then it might be reasonable to devote the rest of your resources to reducing existential risk (though depending on your assumptions about the current rate of scientific progress in various fields maybe it’s better to work on life extension or just increasing the rate of progress in AI/brain uploading?)