ChristianKl comments on Motivation and Merciless Commitment Contracts - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 09 August 2013 02:29:25PM 0 points [-]

Part of what such exercises are about is demostrating yourself that you have agency.

If you lose control over the situation in a way that you didn't expect beforehand and people disapprove of you in that way it doesn't encourage yourself to see your own agency.