Cyan comments on Akrasia, hyperbolic discounting, and picoeconomics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2009 09:06:23PM 9 points [-]

Yes, I got the same impression. Annoyance's advice is vague, useless, condescending, trying to sound like it has something profound to say without being specific, sonorous-sounding, promising help without offering any. It is not, however, particularly Dark Side Epistemology.

Comment author: Cyan 29 March 2009 10:47:51PM *  5 points [-]

I was thinking of your Dark Side Epistemology and Yvain's Dark Arts as two more-or-less separate things, the key difference stemming from the fact that Dark Arts are perpetrated on others and Dark Side Epistemology is perpetrated on one's self.