NancyLebovitz comments on Activation Costs - Less Wrong

29 Post author: lionhearted 25 October 2010 09:30PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 October 2010 11:14:11PM 0 points [-]

Could you expand on your ideas for better ways to talk about difficulties with taking action?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 28 October 2010 04:14:30AM -1 points [-]

I'd rather get a really solid framework for reasoning about 'dispositional skill' before I talk about 'akrasia' in particular; this will take a few months of hard work by me and others. We're currently doing a large-scale literature review before we start playing around with our own unifying theories, and the review/learning process should take a month or more. A lot of it will involve talking to domain experts, et cetera.