RichardHughes comments on Group rationality diary, 1/9/13 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Error 10 January 2013 01:00:00PM 1 point [-]

I've been looking into beeminder and procrastinating about using it. The irony of this has not escaped me.

There is a class of things I don't want to do so much as have done, such as exercise; this is the sort of thing I'd like to use beeminder for. The internal fear leading to the procrastination seems to be "oh, crap, if I take step X that is likely to override my defenses against doing Y, I might actually do Y."

My brain goes to remarkable lengths to undermine me.

Comment author: RichardHughes 10 January 2013 08:10:42PM 2 points [-]

Are you sure that you really want to have done Y? Maybe you just think you do.