Warrigal comments on Rationalist horoscopes: A low-hanging utility generator. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 May 2011 04:08:25PM 2 points [-]

I utterly lacked that power. Then someone said to me, "I used to have kleptomania, but then I talked to a therapist, and they told me that I'm only stealing things compulsively in order to prove to myself that there's something wrong with me. After I realized that, I stopped." I thought about that for a while, and decided that maybe the only reason I'm acting akratic is that I want to prove to myself that I do experience akrasia.

And now... well, I don't actually know if that has fixed the problem, or not. I haven't tried to use the method TrE mentions enough times to know how well it works. Send me a message in, oh, a week, and I'll get back to you.