lukeprog comments on How to Beat Procrastination - Less Wrong

156 Post author: lukeprog 05 February 2011 06:49PM

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Comment author: Dorikka 05 February 2011 09:11:44PM 1 point [-]

It should be clarified whether this model considers entertainment activities as 'tasks.' If a person has high Impulsiveness, I intuitively see them doing a lot of things with high Expectancy, medium/low value, and little or no Delay. Example: videogames.

However, I do not predict that people with high Impulsiveness will sit around in bed all day actually doing nothing, so I think that the equation is flawed in that we usually understand Impulsiveness as a constant factor for a person, while Expectancy, Value, and Delay are all variable, depending on the activity being considered.

Comment author: lukeprog 05 February 2011 09:34:42PM 1 point [-]

Dorikka,

Does my new addition to footnote #6 answer your concern?

Comment author: Dorikka 05 February 2011 10:13:55PM 0 points [-]

Yes -- thanks.