SilasBarta comments on Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 09 August 2009 04:38:41AM 2 points [-]

a lot of confusion arises from fuzzy use of the first person.

Indeed. Like many paradoxes, the whole problem of akrasia (both the philosophical side and the personal-life side) may very well boil down to the subtle assumptions invoked by the very use of the category "self".