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

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Comment author: timtyler 30 March 2009 09:17:03PM 2 points [-]

Considering how irritating "Annoyance" is, their nickname is apt-ironic :-(

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 March 2009 10:28:49PM 6 points [-]

If this is not Caledonian, then there are two Caledonians.

Comment author: thomblake 02 April 2009 09:37:10PM 2 points [-]

Did you honestly think that wasn't intentional?

I like to think Socrates' "gadfly" worked into the nickname.

Comment author: ciphergoth 30 March 2009 09:34:14PM 1 point [-]

They do it to give themselves permission.