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Does Steel do a unit analysis of the procrastination equation? To my eye, it looks like motivation is measured in, say, utilons per impulsivon-hours. Do these units make sense?
Previous LW posts have covered some of this material. (I'm just giving the links, not issuing a criticism -- in fact, I think it's good to review core material at regular intervals and to have write-ups in different styles.)
I think it would make sense if the units of Impulsiveness are 1/time?
For a rational agent, motivation = utils. Affliction with impulsiveness (by which we here mean "not delaying gratification") requires motivation = utils / R where R increases with the amount of delay. Setting R to a 1/time impulsiveness constant multiplied by delay does accomplish this.
The same way that Hertz are cycles / second, Impulsiveness is "motivation-drop" / second.