Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Self-deception: Hypocrisy or Akrasia? - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 March 2007 05:03PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 March 2007 06:29:07PM 11 points [-]

I was thinking of this post as a continuation of our discussion in your Resolving Your Hypocrisy post of Dec06. It's this business of saying "really want" to refer to people's impulses instead of their principles, as if their low self were the only true one, that I strongly object to; it does not help people. (Under the circumstances - though I hesitate to make this accusation - I point out that calling others hypocrites instead of just akrasics, and calling their lowest selves their truest selves, may allow us to look down on them.)