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

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Comment author: imaxwell 15 September 2011 03:53:01AM 3 points [-]

The most obvious solution is to coerce your future self, by creating a future downside of not following through that is worse than the future downside of following through. Nuclear deterrence is a tough one, but In principle this is no different from coercing someone else. (I guess one could ask if it's any more ethical, at that...)