Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes February 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 01 March 2014 09:26:47PM 0 points [-]

Does at-will employment mean people in the US aren't free to hire each other?

Long term contracts exist and are enforceable (even if they're not the default). Monogamy contracts aren't enforceable in the current legal regime.

Only if you're dynamically consistent (no akrasia, etc.), otherwise your future self is another party -- and some people do write contracts with their future selves; does the fact that the police won't enforce such contracts mean people aren't free to make them?

There is a huge difference in degree here.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 March 2014 08:10:38AM 0 points [-]

There is a huge difference in degree here.

With vegetarianism itself, people do seem to stick to it (but probably there's some selection bias at work here), but with restrictive diets in general, I'm under the impression that the fraction of people who try to be on a diet but then lapse is within an order of magnitude of the fraction of couples who try to be monogamous but then lapse -- probably within a factor of two, too.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 02 March 2014 07:05:45PM 2 points [-]

I was talking about the difference in degree between cooperating with your future self and cooperating with others.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 March 2014 06:11:42PM *  -1 points [-]

The former's harder for me; YMMV.

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