brazil84 comments on Use Your Identity Carefully - Less Wrong

76 Post author: Ben_LandauTaylor 22 August 2013 01:14AM

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Comment author: brazil84 09 September 2013 10:18:42PM 2 points [-]

Further to this post, I was just reading a story (unverified) about a Jewish girl who had a problem with late night snacking on dairy desserts like ice cream and wanted to lose weight. The way she solved the problem was by eating a small piece of meat in the evening, making it non-kosher for her to consume ice cream.

If this is true, it seems to me a good example of the use of identity to fight akrasia.