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Akrasia
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Cultivating And Destroying Agency
hath
5mo
10
14
The Importance-Avoidance Effect
David Hartsough
2mo
7
57
(Brainstem, Neocortex) ≠ (Base Motivations, Honorable Motivations)
Steven Byrnes
1y
14
35
On Suddenly Not Being Able to Work
Jacob Falkovich
2y
11
233
Ugh fields
Roko
12y
80
137
Thoughts on designing policies for oneself
John_Maxwell
10y
63
6
Three useful types of akrasia
Dambi
8mo
4
136
Measuring aversion and habit strength
Academian
11y
15
49
Rationalist Lent
Qiaochu_Yuan
4y
63
89
Co-Working Collaboration to Combat Akrasia
ShannonFriedman
9y
99
115
Experiential Pica
Alicorn
13y
113
28
Akrasia is confusion about what you want
Gordon Seidoh Worley
3y
7
101
Improving The Akrasia Hypothesis
pjeby
12y
70
35
There is No Akrasia
lifelonglearner
5y
24
54
Not-Useless Advice For Dealing With Things You Don't Want to Do
Rafael Harth
8mo
10
78
Final Version Perfected: An Underused Execution Algorithm
willbradshaw
2y
32
66
Five Ways To Prioritize Better
lynettebye
2y
7
46
Why Productivity Systems Don't Stick
Matt Goldenberg
1y
21
201
Checklist of Rationality Habits
AnnaSalamon
10y
189
29
Non-Coercive Perfectionism
Matt Goldenberg
1y
25
27
Would most people benefit from being less coercive to themselves?
Matt Goldenberg
1y
8
220
How to Beat Procrastination
lukeprog
11y
162
207
Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11y
163
123
My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination
lukeprog
10y
138
8
Ordering yourself around with an app
bfinn
1y
2
34
Urgent & important: How (not) to do your to-do list
bfinn
3y
21
117
Defeating Ugh Fields In Practice
Psychohistorian
12y
96
95
Poll results: LW probably doesn't cause akrasia
AnnaSalamon
11y
109