dclayh comments on Actions and Words: Akrasia and the Fruit of Self-Knowledge - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dclayh 15 April 2009 06:26:07PM *  2 points [-]

Our actions reveal what we actually want, not what we believe we want or believe we should want. No one chooses against their own judgment. What we do is choose against our understanding of our own judgment, and that is a far subtler matter. By our fruits shall we know ourselves.

Bravo. That's what I was trying to get at in the last part of my post.