pinyaka comments on Useful Concepts Repository - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pinyaka 11 June 2013 12:14:46AM *  16 points [-]

eterrent efficacy of a threatened punishment: its swiftness, its certainty, and its severity.

Interestingly, these correspond to delay, expectancy and value in the procrastination equation. It's interesting to see "negative" values used to form a kind of anti-motivation.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 11 June 2013 08:19:47PM 3 points [-]

Awesome, this is worth its own post IMO.

Comment author: satt 11 June 2013 01:55:41AM 1 point [-]

I hadn't noticed that. That's a pretty shrewd connection! Come to think of it, the "excessive discounting"/"excessive present-orientation" Kleiman mentions is suspiciously similar to the procrastination equation's remaining term, impulsiveness.

I wonder whether criminologists discovered this independently of psychologists & neuroscientists? Might be an example of two parts of academia converging on the same answer from different directions.