Vladimir_Nesov comments on Willpower Hax #487: Execute by Default - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 May 2009 06:46AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 May 2009 06:44:52PM *  0 points [-]

Once the plan is in motion, the final action no longer requires an effortful decision - that's the theory, anyway. And to start the plan doesn't require as much effort because I just have to think "10, 9..."

This seems to be related to Fire and Motion: once you start coding/writing, it's relatively easy to continue for the rest of the day, the only problem is to actually start.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, code!

Comment author: humanerror 12 May 2009 07:32:42PM 0 points [-]

I guess that's what Marry Poppins was on about.