Luke_A_Somers comments on Willpower: not a limited resource? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TobyBartels 28 October 2010 01:36:40AM 2 points [-]

Yeah, I see that now, but it's still very weird to me. And the new article seems to explain why: I think of willpower as like CON, so for me it's like CON. Others think of it as HP, so for them it's like HP. I just didn't realise that there was anybody like those others before!

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 16 October 2012 05:22:34PM *  0 points [-]

For me it's more like the limit break meter. When things get bad enough, it comes.

On the other hand, sometimes it's like a combo meter - the more I do, the more I keep doing.

Maybe it's more that I have a constant amount, and the challenge I'm facing varies in time.