wedrifid comments on How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT - Less Wrong
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In this case QM helps because it supports normal conclusions. QM tells you eating less deserts makes you lose weight. It just takes longer to do the calculation. Just like TDT typically takes longer to understand that CDT but either work just fine for the purpose of deciding not to eat deserts because you care about future consequences.
I suppose the only advantage to either is that thinking in those modes can make folk feel mystic/abstract/deep or otherwise in "Far Mode" so trick themselve into the mode of actually making decisions rather than executing habits.