loqi comments on Self control may be contagious - Less Wrong

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Comment author: loqi 01 February 2010 08:32:38PM 4 points [-]

To beat our subconscious into submission when we're sufficiently certain that submitting to its impulses is actually against our best interests. IMO, such certainty is harder to come by than it's made out to be.