peirce comments on Motivation and Merciless Commitment Contracts - Less Wrong

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Comment author: peirce 08 August 2013 03:18:32PM 1 point [-]

I've considered it, but having more social confidence at least in the way I've been using the term in this post, seems to me to be generally a good thing. I recognise that it is not good to be overly confident in your abilities to the point that you are unrealistic and delusional about them. But I'm more talking about training the ability to engage is social situations which you find uncomfortable, and I see type of social confidence as generally a good thing because it opens up your options more, and means that social fear acts as a smaller constraint on your actions.

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 August 2013 02:27:05PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure whether the kind of confidence that involved in asking "have you seen my pet fish?" is the kind that's generally a good thing.

It's not the kind of action where it's very valuable to be able to perform it.

It might make sense to train on something that doesn't have negative externalities to other people.