gwern comments on Improving The Akrasia Hypothesis - Less Wrong

69 Post author: pjeby 26 February 2010 08:45PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 27 February 2010 12:32:36AM *  0 points [-]

I like your classification of anti-akrasia techniques. Here's a slightly different way of phrasing the same classification: All anti-akrasia techniques either

  • Improve your ability to do things despite having conflicting crap in your working memory,
  • Prevent your working memory from getting filled with crap, or
  • Increase the amount of space taken by your current task so there's no room for conflicting crap in your working memory.

Looking at that third category... suddenly, dual N-back training doesn't seem like such a good idea anymore.

Comment author: gwern 27 February 2010 02:45:40PM *  1 point [-]

suddenly, dual N-back training doesn't seem like such a good idea anymore.

I don't think you're anywhere near running into Amdahl's law here.