niceguyanon comments on Simulate and Defer To More Rational Selves - LessWrong

125 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 17 September 2014 06:11PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (112)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: niceguyanon 09 September 2014 04:57:29PM 3 points [-]

I suspect this trick works by not only reducing decision fatigue, but by also offloading rejection fear, which makes this hack appropriate for social anxiety. Fear of embarrassment is one step removed from myself.