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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 19 February 2013 07:15:53AM *  0 points [-]

So, akrasia is not longer a significant problem or obstacle in your life?

Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 20 February 2013 02:11:30AM 2 points [-]

No, sorry, that's not what I meant. It's more like---previously, I must have been implicitly thinking of "rationality" as being about verbal intellectual discourse, like the sort of thing we do here. Whereas now it's as if I'm finally starting to glimpse this idea of probability and decision theory as constraints on coherent behavior, with speaking and writing merely being particular types of human behavior that happen to be particularly salient to us, even though the real world is made out of simpler parts that we don't usually think about.