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Antisuji comments on Rationality, competitiveness and akrasia - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: cousin_it 02 October 2013 01:45PM

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Comment author: Antisuji 02 October 2013 03:42:11PM *  4 points [-]

2 will still lead to some strange behavior. For example, when composing a comment on a forum, rather than typing directly into the textarea you'll switch to a text editor and copy-paste when you're done.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 02 October 2013 06:02:50PM 1 point [-]

Worse, use curl and view the pages offline.

Comment author: 4hodmt 02 October 2013 09:20:35PM 6 points [-]

Making web browsing slightly more annoying can be effective in reducing use.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 02 October 2013 09:54:59PM 0 points [-]

Yes. Even as wrong as downloading 15 chapters of fanfic in one command line and binging them for an afternoon would be while seeming to use the connection for around 3 seconds... that isn't what would normally happen.