timtyler comments on Improving The Akrasia Hypothesis - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 08 March 2010 10:30:51AM *  0 points [-]

If you have a captive audience, yes.

Having an abstract is useful when your audience is free to wander off - and probably will. That is often an accurate assumption in academic circles or on the internet.