Current selves wield all the power in intertemporal tradeoffs. Although one set of future selves will make similar tradeoffs in the future, another self – who we term the cumulative future self – falls on the receiving end of those dictated decisions. How current selves commune with the cumulative future self determines whether the former heed pleas, from the latter, for patience.

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恳求累积未来的自己耐心等待

当前的自我在跨期权衡中拥有所有权力。尽管一组未来的自我将在未来做出类似的权衡，但另一个自我——我们称之为累积的未来自我——落在了这些决定的接收端。当前的自我如何与累积的未来自我交流，决定了前者是否听从后者的耐心请求。