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MartinB 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: AnnaSalamon 19 September 2011 07:50:41PM *  14 points [-]

Many LW-ers seem also to have had unusual amounts of akrasia before finding LW, suggesting that it isn't the sequences that are the cause of the trouble. (For me, the sequences helped with productivity.)

But even so, it could be that folks here tend to use system 2 processing more than folks elsewhere (and tended to do so also as kids), and that this leads to decision fatigue. It sounds worth testing, if we can find a way to do that.

Comment author: MartinB 19 September 2011 10:31:52PM 12 points [-]

Someone without "too much time" on their hands might find it difficult to find this place and then spend enough time to evaluate it to become a regular.