savageorange comments on The Rationality Wars - Less Wrong

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Comment author: savageorange 01 March 2014 10:59:46PM *  0 points [-]

Yes, that's roughly the reformulation I settled on. Except that I omitted 'have the habit' because it's magical-ish - desiring to have the habit of X is not that relevant to actually achieving the habit of X, rather simply desiring to X strongly enough to actually X is what results in the building of a habit of X.