Jonathan_Graehl comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong
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Well put. I've realized that really planning (and acting) in order to reach hard goals, is something I almost never do. Most of the time I'm just working on what feels most rewarding locally.
Yes - but perhaps some of the unfortunate remainder could grow to understand (by acquiring some missing prerequisites first).
Yes. And I wonder how much non-task-specific training or tricking of the motivational systems is possible. There may be general tricks like (h), but I have no evidence for a sort of general "able to try harder" faculty that can be improved (even though it seems extremely plausible).