 It is hard to deny that Ulysses makes a wise choice in being tied to the mast. Some hold, however, that Ulysses is nevertheless not an exemplary agent, since his present self must play against his future self who will be unwittingly seduced by the sirens. While Ulysses is rational at the first choice node by static decision standards, we might regard him irrational overall by sequential decision standards, understood in terms of the relative value of sequences of choices. The sequence of choices that Ulysses inevitably pursues is, after all, suboptimal. It would have been better were he able to sail unconstrained and continue on home to Ithaca. This sequence could have been achieved if Ulysses were continuously rational over the extended time period; say, if at all times he were to act as an EU maximiser, and change his beliefs and desires only in accordance with Bayesian norms (variants of standard conditionalisation). On this reading, sequential decision models introduce considerations of rationality-over-time.