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Comment author: RichardKennaway 04 February 2014 11:09:42AM 3 points [-]

We can talk about precommitment all day, but the fact of the matter is that humans can't actually precommit.

If you define the bar high enough, you can conclude that humans can't do anything.

In the real world outside my head, I observe that people have varying capacities to keep promises to themselves. That their capacity is finite does not mean that it is zero.