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

17 Post author: Alexandros 19 September 2011 03:37PM

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Comment author: jimmy 19 September 2011 07:45:29PM 9 points [-]

What sounds more likely to me is that people start identifying as someone that wants to get more stuff done, but their motivation level doesn't increase (fast enough?) so what used to be "I just don't want to do X" becomes "I want to do X, but I'm not doing it so it must be akrasia or something"

I'm familiar with the feeling of decision fatigue, but casually using and building a more detailed model of the world doesn't seem to have that effect - only if I'm really struggling on a hard problem.