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NancyLebovitz comments on Open thread, Jan. 19 - Jan. 25, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 23 January 2015 09:40:03PM 1 point [-]

I wonder if activation energy is a good way of describing difficulties with getting started.

Discussion of different kinds of werewithal

Comment author: sediment 25 January 2015 03:10:48PM 1 point [-]

Yep, the model in that post is quite close to the one I'm trying to describe.