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Akrasia

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Akrasia is the state of acting against one's better judgment. Examples of akrasia include procrastination and inability to form strong cooperating communities.

Note that, for example, if you are procrastinating because it's not in your best interest to complete the task you are delaying, it is not a case of akrasia.

Blog posts

  • Self-deception: Hypocrisy or Akrasia?
  • Chaotic Inversion
  • Akrasia and Shangri-La
  • Working hurts less than procrastination, we feel the twinge of starting
  • Akrasia, hyperbolic discounting, and picoeconomics by ciphergoth
  • Cached Procrastination by jimrandomh
  • Applied Picoeconomics by Yvain
  • When Willpower Attacks by jimrandomh - How overly strong willpower can get you in trouble.
  • Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality by Anna Salamon
  • Poll results: LW probably doesn't cause Akrasia by Anna Salamon
  • Akrasia Tactics Review by orthonormal
  • How to Beat Procrastination by lukeprog
  • My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination by lukeprog
  • Anti-akrasia tool: like stickK.com for data nerds by dreeves

External links

  • Akrasia at Psychology Wiki
  • Weakness of Will, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Beeminder

See also

  • Adaptation executers
  • Trivial inconvenience
  • Ugh field
  • Compartmentalization
  • Preference

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425Ugh fields
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368Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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9Notes on Self-Control
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278How to Beat Procrastination
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93Akrasia Tactics Review
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141Subagents, akrasia, and coherence in humans
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62Why Productivity Systems Don't Stick
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148My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination
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138My experience using financial commitments to overcome akrasia
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86Akrasia, hyperbolic discounting, and picoeconomics
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76Co-Working Collaboration to Combat Akrasia
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
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