While I 100% agree with your views here, and this is by far the most sane opinion on akrasia that I’ve seen in a long time, I’m not convinced that so many people on LW really “get it”. Although to be sure, the distribution of behavior that signals this has significantly shifted since the move to LW2.0.
So overall I am very uncertain, but I still find it more plausible that the reason why the community as a whole stopped talking about akrasia is more like, people run out of impressive-seeming or fresh-seeming things to say about it? While the minority that could have contributed actual real new insights turned away for better reasons.
While I 100% agree with your views here, and this is by far the most sane opinion on akrasia that I’ve seen in a long time, I’m not convinced that so many people on LW really “get it”. Although to be sure, the distribution of behavior that signals this has significantly shifted since the move to LW2.0.
So overall I am very uncertain, but I still find it more plausible that the reason why the community as a whole stopped talking about akrasia is more like, people run out of impressive-seeming or fresh-seeming things to say about it? While the minority that could have contributed actual real new insights turned away for better reasons.
Right, that’s why I labeled the above “the optimistic story.” The pessimistic stories were left as exercises to the reader.