Psy-Kosh comments on Final Words - Less Wrong

71 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 April 2009 09:12PM

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 28 April 2009 01:23:08AM *  18 points [-]

I think cousin_it was going for "having one's desires feel strongly, proportional to the amount they really want it", rather than partly saying "I really want X, but my more immediate desires that I don't 'really want' are desires I feel/experience much more strongly and end up being something I want to but find difficulty struggling against."

ie, I'm guessing the point was ultimately an akrasia issue.