spriteless comments on Where's Your Sense of Mystery? - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Yvain 26 April 2009 12:45AM

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Comment author: spriteless 26 April 2009 06:27:41AM 0 points [-]

I know akrasia is more precise, but why don't we call it motivation problems like most people who work on such things do? I can more quickly find information on research to fix 'lack of motivation' than 'akrasia.'

Comment author: kpreid 28 April 2009 03:37:32AM 1 point [-]

'akrasia' is a behavior and 'lack of motivation' is a hypothesized cause.