Overcoming akrasia is about more effectively achieving your goals. Those goals don’t necessarily have to involve saving the world. All the goals you listed were of the non-world-saving variety. Again, that doesn’t make them bad goals, but it does make it unclear what the overall point of the post is (since the first and second halves seem to contradict each other).
I did not downvote the post, and personally think it is silly to downvote due to spelling errors (since good spelling seems like more of a way of demonstrating status than communicating effectively). I was merely trying to answer your question based on my best guess.
I’ve edited it to make the relationship between overcoming Akrasia and saving the world more clear, but when I asked for comments earlier I was focusing on people who down-voted so I trade for their opinions with possible expected utility. I greatly appreciate your commentary on my article though because its helped it grow to become something much more stable as a LessWrongian piece.
Overcoming akrasia is about more effectively achieving your goals. Those goals don’t necessarily have to involve saving the world. All the goals you listed were of the non-world-saving variety. Again, that doesn’t make them bad goals, but it does make it unclear what the overall point of the post is (since the first and second halves seem to contradict each other).
I did not downvote the post, and personally think it is silly to downvote due to spelling errors (since good spelling seems like more of a way of demonstrating status than communicating effectively). I was merely trying to answer your question based on my best guess.
I’ve edited it to make the relationship between overcoming Akrasia and saving the world more clear, but when I asked for comments earlier I was focusing on people who down-voted so I trade for their opinions with possible expected utility. I greatly appreciate your commentary on my article though because its helped it grow to become something much more stable as a LessWrongian piece.