Ishaan comments on Goal Setting and Goal Achievement - LessWrong

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Comment author: Ishaan 29 October 2013 04:51:49AM *  3 points [-]

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.