thomblake comments on My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 08 February 2012 10:03:23PM 13 points [-]

My algorithm for beating procrastination is:

1: procrastinate
2: goto 1

It doesn't work well at all.

Comment author: thomblake 08 February 2012 10:03:55PM 7 points [-]

I'd fix it, but I didn't leave space between the line numbers.

Comment author: MartinB 09 February 2012 01:31:34AM 1 point [-]

My first computer had a »renumber« command for that problem. It even fixed most references.

Giving up is not recommended though.

Comment author: thomblake 22 February 2012 07:04:00PM 1 point [-]

What, no complaints that it doesn't terminate?