Man this post is horrifying to me. It seems to imply (or at least suggest) a world where everyone, individually and collectively, is in the grip of mind controlling parasites, shifting people’s choices and redirecting societies resources, against our best interests. We’re all trapped in these mental snares where we can’t even choose something different.
I’ve never really taken akrasia, per se, seriously, because I basically believed the claim about revealed preferences. If you’re engaging in some behavior that’s because some part of you wants (and (implicitly) likes) the resulting consequences.
Man this post is horrifying to me. It seems to imply (or at least suggest) a world where everyone, individually and collectively, is in the grip of mind controlling parasites, shifting people’s choices and redirecting societies resources, against our best interests. We’re all trapped in these mental snares where we can’t even choose something different.
I’ve never really taken akrasia, per se, seriously, because I basically believed the claim about revealed preferences. If you’re engaging in some behavior that’s because some part of you wants (and (implicitly) likes) the resulting consequences.
This new view is dystopic.