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shokwave comments on Group rationality diary, 5/28/12 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shokwave 03 June 2012 10:56:39AM 4 points [-]

I've been procrastinating on working on what I learned at the minicamp. Recently I presented an abridged version of one of the sessions (self-modification through operant conditioning) to my local meetup. It went very well, and then something surprising happened. I could actually work on the minicamp stuff! I suspect the positive response increased the value of working on it. It was a bizarre feeling - like trying to stand on a stair that isn't there - to expect akrasia and suddenly be capable of working instead.