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Tetronian comments on How can humans make precommitments? - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Incorrect 15 September 2011 01:19AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 September 2011 02:36:52AM 2 points [-]

By taking the idea of precommitements absolutely seriously. However, I'm not sure if it is actually possible in practice, and I doubt that the standard techniques for decompartmentalization are sufficient.