shminux comments on Depression as a defense mechanism against slavery - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 19 May 2012 06:10:03PM *  0 points [-]

What consequences would this theory of depression have for the goal of controlling akrasia?

  • Enslaving these akrastic individuals should be easy, they won't fight back.

  • Make them do something useful, for their own good, "or else". This makes these external goals explicit and harder to ignore.

Comment author: gwern 19 May 2012 06:54:18PM 2 points [-]

I think he means for the akratic person. I see plenty of implications, for example that a way to attack the root of depression would be to fake markers of status - have the person join a small club or organization which they can derive status from, for example.