pjeby comments on How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious - Less Wrong

113 Post author: Swimmer963 23 January 2012 11:50PM

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Comment author: irrationalist 31 January 2012 12:07:01AM 0 points [-]

true dat.

Doesn't even need to go as far as ugh fields and akrasia -- it's an explicit choice.

Comment author: pjeby 31 January 2012 06:58:19PM 2 points [-]

Er, true, but that's not what I meant. I mean that you might have other goals -- goals you might not expect to be related, but which, as a side effect, might make you "like" (be similar to) those people in some minor way, and end up with a puzzling ugh field or akrasia, if you didn't consciously notice the connection.

This is a common enough occurrence that I have patterns for working on it, in myself and in people who consult me for akrasia problems.