ciphergoth comments on Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 August 2010 02:12:52PM 7 points [-]

There's also a sort of akrasia which is physically based-- if I eat too much refined carbs, I can get a day or two of doing very little while thinking "I don't care, I don't care". It looks like a psychological problem, but is really well corelated with the carbs.

Comment author: ciphergoth 04 August 2010 02:57:13PM 2 points [-]

After reading Stuart Sutherland's "Irrationality", I'm starting to think I should discard altogether my impressions of what makes the difference between good and bad days in favour of a notebook and a real regression analysis. Is that what you're doing? If so, what is the correlation?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 August 2010 03:19:34PM 0 points [-]

The way I talked about it implied more precision than I've actually got.

The "I don't care" internal monologue only seems to happen after sugar overdose, but I haven't been keeping records.