GabrielDuquette comments on Breaking the chain of akrasia - Less Wrong

25 Post author: lukeprog 20 January 2012 04:12AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 20 January 2012 06:59:49AM 4 points [-]

Seen through an evo psych lens, this makes a certain kind of sense. I wonder how much far-mode individual achievement was actually going on in our evolutionary history. Probably very little, if any. It seems like we freeze up in the face of some types of procrastination-inspiring tasks in the same way that we might've previously been averse to banishment -- in both cases the threat is a marked dropoff in being "held" by the group.