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Joke: But wouldn't someone not waiting to reveal an akrasia-killing technique be evidence for the technique's effectiveness?
I didn't get the joke. :(
I mainly made the comment because I get a huge number of false starts with things like that -- I confuse a short term solution (something worth noting, but not an actual cure) with a long term one and then am glad that I didn't post about it.
Let's say that I won't post a technique until a week has passed. If it's day 6 and I haven't posted it, it may mean the technique failed or simply be a symptom that the week didn't pass yet. If someone didn't operate by this restriction, I think that them not posting the technique would just be evidence that it failed -- why hold it back?
Or maybe it'll be clearer in the morning... :)
Apologies, the joke was that someone who was particularly filled with akrasia would procrastinate and never actually post the akrasia-killing technique.