Warrigal comments on Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AspiringKnitter 17 January 2012 07:41:50AM 8 points [-]

By "decision", I don't mean the decision to get up in the morning, I mean the sort that's made on a conscious level and requires at least a few seconds' serious thought.

Consider yourself lucky if that doesn't describe getting up in the morning for you.

Anyway, not that this counts at all (availability bias), but I made a rational decision a couple of days ago to get some sleep instead of working later into the night on homework. I did exactly that.

In fact, I just made a rational decision-- just now-- to quit reading the article I was reading, work on homework for a few minutes and then go to bed. I haven't gotten to bed yet. Otherwise, that's going well.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 January 2012 04:36:54AM 2 points [-]

Consider yourself lucky if that doesn't describe getting up in the morning for you.

Can you rig your mornings so that staying in bed just doesn't work? I use two alarm clocks, one set for two minutes after the other; the one that goes off two minutes later is out of arm's reach, so I have to either get out of bed, or sleep through it.

Comment author: AspiringKnitter 18 January 2012 07:32:46AM *  0 points [-]

Not really worth it, but thanks. :) My current strategy is just to wait a few minutes, which essentially always does the trick unless I'm totally exhausted and need more sleep. I appreciate the thought, though.