[adamcharnock]

You’re mention of HN(/tech) people got me thinking about the difference between the experiencing self and the remembering self.

I can illustrate it as follows: You can go on a wonderful free holiday for two weeks, but the deal is you will not be able to remember it. Do you want to go?

Some people will say no. After all, if they cannot remember it then it is just loosing two weeks. These people prioritise the remembering self.

But some people will say yes, because woohoo it’s a holiday! It’ll be fun in the moment. These people prioritise the experiencing self.

I think this is a really interesting concept by itself.

In the case of tech people, I suspect they are mostly in the first category. So they are more in the ‘if I cannot remember anything then put me out of my misery. I essentially don’t have a self anymore.’

But I wonder if people in the second category will be of the mindset, ‘well, I’ll still have good days, which I guess I’ll enjoy at the time’