NancyLebovitz comments on Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 07 January 2011 05:45:17PM 2 points [-]

I'm really surprised this article has such a high rating - it strikes me as one of Eliezer's worst.

Why should anyone believe anything written here?

Why do you believe it?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 07 January 2011 07:17:49PM 1 point [-]

I didn't vote the article up-- I didn't think it was that extraordinary.

On the other hand, it's not wildly different from some of my experience, and I can believe that there are people for whom it's very accurate.

Eliezer gets a good bit done, and he might well find threshold effects be an obstacle to work, but find actually doing work to be very engaging.

Do you find the article implausible, and if so, why?