BrianG comments on Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors - Less Wrong

91 Post author: Yvain 17 July 2011 08:43PM

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Comment author: BrianG 18 July 2011 03:20:10PM 2 points [-]

I was thinking about this myself, and was going to bring it up. I stopped telling people I was going to become a writer for that reason. But I think there's a difference between telling people you are going to do a thing at a vaguely determined time in the future, and telling someone you are going to commit to a task that same day.