PhilGoetz comments on Simulate and Defer To More Rational Selves - LessWrong
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Hah! I know that feeling so well. Then when I notice it, I feel doomed AND stupid!
This sounds like a good technique for dealing with social phobias or ADHD, but I hope you don't use it for complex, long-chain-single-point-of-failure personal or ethical problems. Those are areas where emotions stop us from doing terrible things because we forgot to carry the 1 in column 3.