If akratics reliably would take such a pill, wouldn’t you expect self-help to work?
My own observation is that people generally stop using self-help techniques that actually work, and often report puzzlement as to why they stopped.
So I think akratics would take such a pill. The catch is that self-help is generally a pill that must be taken daily, and as soon as your brain catches up with the connection between taking the pill and making progress on a goal you don’t actually want to make progress on… you’ll start “mysteriously forgetting” to take the pill.
The only thing I know that works for this sort of situation is getting sufficiently clear on your covert goals to resolve the conflict(s) between them.
My own observation is that people generally stop using self-help techniques that actually work, and often report puzzlement as to why they stopped.
So I think akratics would take such a pill. The catch is that self-help is generally a pill that must be taken daily, and as soon as your brain catches up with the connection between taking the pill and making progress on a goal you don’t actually want to make progress on… you’ll start “mysteriously forgetting” to take the pill.
The only thing I know that works for this sort of situation is getting sufficiently clear on your covert goals to resolve the conflict(s) between them.
I was definitely envisaging a pill that only needs to be taken once, not one that needs to be taken daily.