gwern comments on Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 24 September 2010 07:55:45PM 6 points [-]

I can second this one.

Literally hundreds of times I have realized that it will soon be time to go to tae kwon do class, and that I was dreading it, even though each time I mentally noted for future reference during class that I was enjoying myself considerably.

I sometimes wonder if a few hundred more repetitions will make the dread go away, but Laplace's rule is not optimistic.