shokwave comments on The Fallacy of Dressing Like a Winner - Less Wrong

19 Post author: benelliott 26 December 2010 08:59PM

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Comment author: shokwave 27 December 2010 05:05:42AM *  2 points [-]

One of the examples I brought up in the depublished post was of motivation. That is, people investigate motivated people - and they can't find any motivated people who don't have methods. So, naturally, they go out to the (book)store and purchase some methods, expecting that wearing and using these methods will make them a motivated person. This seems like a case of the dressing like a winner fallacy that isn't really a strawman, and does clear up some confusion regarding akrasia and the like.

(I did also recommend removing the mathematically rational section; I had concerns that it didn't fit as well as the other two.)