Warrigal comments on Pain and gain motivation - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 07 April 2010 06:48PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 April 2010 10:45:53PM 1 point [-]

Why, pray tell, not? Surely heroin addicts would rather not be heroin addicts, and yet they are.

Comment author: Nanani 09 April 2010 12:44:43AM 2 points [-]

Are you sure about that? Beware generalizing from a sample of one.

Heroin addiction is in most cases carefully cultivated by the addict, for a variety of reasons, and stopping is not really difficult.

I recommend Theodore Dalrymple's insightful book Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy for clarification as to why akrasia and heroin addiction are not related.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 April 2010 03:44:23AM 8 points [-]

I'm generalizing from a sample of zero, in fact.

Comment author: RobinZ 09 April 2010 04:23:31AM 6 points [-]

That's the wittiest expression for "I'm reporting my prior" that I've seen in the last five minutes! :D