Lots of things probably, but if I knew WHICH ones I obviously wouldn’t be doing them! In fact, I can’t figure out any way anyone on LW could possibly answer differently, which probably means I misinterpreted the question somehow.
Maybe you mean “in what situations do you have a problem with akrasia?”
Akrasia is a big topic here because it seems to be a common problem. However, excessive impulsiveness can also be a problem.
It’s possible to think of impulsiveness as a sort of akrasia—it’s habitually insufficient effort put into self-regulation. However, doing something without thought has a different feel than low-energy time-killing, and probably requires a somewhat different approach to deal with it.
And there are sorts of irrationality which aren’t very much like either. There’s lost goals, and there’s insufficient research—doing something because you’d heard somewhere that it was a good idea without checking on how well-founded the theory was or whether your life is getting improved.
I have no reason to think this is a complete typology.
Lots of things probably, but if I knew WHICH ones I obviously wouldn’t be doing them! In fact, I can’t figure out any way anyone on LW could possibly answer differently, which probably means I misinterpreted the question somehow.
Maybe you mean “in what situations do you have a problem with akrasia?”
Akrasia is a big topic here because it seems to be a common problem. However, excessive impulsiveness can also be a problem.
It’s possible to think of impulsiveness as a sort of akrasia—it’s habitually insufficient effort put into self-regulation. However, doing something without thought has a different feel than low-energy time-killing, and probably requires a somewhat different approach to deal with it.
And there are sorts of irrationality which aren’t very much like either. There’s lost goals, and there’s insufficient research—doing something because you’d heard somewhere that it was a good idea without checking on how well-founded the theory was or whether your life is getting improved.
I have no reason to think this is a complete typology.