anonym comments on When Willpower Attacks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: anonym 04 October 2009 07:41:51PM *  4 points [-]

I don't think OCD makes sense as willpower taken too far, since the compulsive behaviors are the defaults and the lack of ability to override those defaults via willpower is the problem. To the OCD sufferer, overriding those defaults requires superhuman levels of willpower they can't reliably summon and sustain.