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endoself comments on Decision Fatigue, Rationality, and Akrasia. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: endoself 19 September 2011 06:55:03PM 3 points [-]

Poll: How has your level of akrasia changed since you found lesswrong?

Comment author: endoself 19 September 2011 06:55:51PM 20 points [-]

About the same.

Comment author: endoself 19 September 2011 06:55:40PM 11 points [-]

Decreased significantly.

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 19 September 2011 08:58:01PM 3 points [-]

I voted decreased significantly, but I don't think the cause is LW - that's confounded with going to grad school, which I think is more likely to have been the cause, but those are both confounded with increased maturity due to, well, aging.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 19 September 2011 09:15:56PM *  1 point [-]

Poll: only answer this one if your akrasia has improved significantly since you found LessWrong:

Let t be the time since you found Less Wrong (e.g., "two years", if you found LW two years ago). Did your akrasia decrease more in the t years since you found LW, or in the t years preceding your finding LW?

ETA: The poll I just added (as a Google form, here) is better; please use that one instead, so we can see cross-correlations. (That's why I "retracted" this, but I can't figure out how to delete it.)

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 19 September 2011 09:18:14PM 2 points [-]

About the same.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 19 September 2011 09:17:52PM *  2 points [-]

Improved significantly more in the t years before you found LW, than in the t years since you found LW.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 19 September 2011 09:16:43PM *  0 points [-]

Improved significantly more in the t years since you found LW, than in the t years before finding it.

Comment author: endoself 19 September 2011 06:55:22PM 3 points [-]

Increased significantly.