fburnaby comments on [study] Ego depletion might disappear with age - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Gabriel 15 September 2012 01:32PM

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Comment author: MixedNuts 15 September 2012 10:10:09PM 6 points [-]

If I understand virtue ethics correctly, which I don't, virtue ethicists want to have good autopilots. They don't give themselves much credit for doing good things, except inasmuch as it shows they do them and makes them more likely to continue to do so. Likewise, they don't do slightly bad things, because that would condition them to do bad things in other circumstances.

Comment author: fburnaby 16 September 2012 01:33:48PM *  2 points [-]

"Habituate yourself to the mean."