hyporational comments on Outside the Laboratory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 December 2013 08:35:49AM *  0 points [-]

I meant it in the colloquial ‘takes lots of willpower to stop’ sense, not the technical ‘once I stop I get withdrawal symptoms’ sense. (Is there a technical term for the former?)

(OK, it does seem to me that whenever I eat chocolate daily for a few weeks and then stop, I feel much grumpier for a few days, but that's another story, and anyway it's not like I took enough statistics to rule out it being a coincidence,)

Comment author: hyporational 19 December 2013 04:32:34PM 0 points [-]

Is there something wrong with binging or compulsion? Withdrawal symptoms would imply dependence, but not necessarily addiction.