lionhearted comments on A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy - Less Wrong

47 Post author: lionhearted 07 September 2010 07:01PM

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Comment author: lionhearted 07 September 2010 08:22:04PM 0 points [-]

But to answer OP more directly: I feel that in most cases it's simple akrasia and the fear of succeeding.

Yeah, maybe it's just that. I love that Bruce post by the way, that's one of my favorite posts on here. That one and "Generalizing From One Example" are probably my favorite non-Eliezer posts.