pjeby comments on Poll results: LW probably doesn't cause akrasia - Less Wrong

47 Post author: AnnaSalamon 16 November 2011 06:03PM

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Comment author: pjeby 16 November 2011 09:54:05PM 7 points [-]

Upvoted for apparently taking more than 5 minutes.

For this type of "thinking", it's not really duration that matters. 5 seconds of noticing your spontaneous emotional reaction to an imagined stimulus is much more likely to be useful than 5 minutes of "thinking" that consists of making up stories that seem to explain things.