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

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Comment author: Annoyance 16 April 2009 05:41:39PM 0 points [-]

But you do have to recognize that an alarm clock will induce you to become awake and get up, that it will cause your tendency to remain in bed to end.

You (presumably) don't lie awake at night, willing yourself to get up in the morning. You don't try to set your conscious against your non-conscious, your will against your will.

You just set the alarm and go to sleep.

I think we are in violent agreement. Now we must fight with knives.