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brazil84 comments on Is there a way to stop liking sugar? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: brazil84 13 June 2014 07:16:59AM 2 points [-]

By the way, I'm going purely by simple observation and self-observation, but I think it's a fool's errand to try to reprogram System 1. System 1 is like a petulant, nasty, gluttonous inner child who will never ever grow up.

The better strategy, in my opinion, is containment, i.e. to come up with strategies to limit and control System 1's impact on one's actual actions and decisions in life.