matt comments on The ideas you're not ready to post - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MendelSchmiedekamp 20 April 2009 03:52:16AM 7 points [-]

Willpower building as a fundamental art. And some of the less obvious pit falls. Including the dangers of akrasia circumvention techniques which simply shunt willpower from one place to another and overstraining damaging your willpower reserves.

I need to hunt back down some of the cognitive science research on this before I feel comfortable posting it.

Comment author: matt 20 April 2009 10:20:20PM 0 points [-]