ialdabaoth comments on Akrasia and Shangri-La - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 08:53PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 April 2009 02:27:17AM 13 points [-]

Maybe I'll do a longer reply later... The basic answer is that you can do the impossible but it comes with a price. Burn down every obstacle, sacrifice whatever it takes, devote any amount of time and any amount of energy required? You only get a few shots of that magnitude. Sure, if I made it the one priority in my life and gave up that FAI stuff, I could lose weight.

Comment author: ialdabaoth 16 February 2013 07:54:02PM 1 point [-]

Burn down every obstacle, sacrifice whatever it takes, devote any amount of time and any amount of energy required? You only get a few shots of that magnitude.

Also, different people get different numbers of such shots, and with different maximum magnitudes.