An AGI with Time-Inconsistent Preferences
  This paper reveals a trap for artificial general intelligence (AGI) theorists
who use economists' standard method of discounting. This trap is implicitly and
falsely assuming that a rational AGI would have time-consistent preferences. An
agent with time-inconsistent preferences knows that its future self will
disagree with its current self concerning intertemporal decision making. Such
an agent cannot automatically trust its future self to carry out plans that its
current self considers optimal.
