I’m looking for examples of temptations that you would yield to, given the chance, and precommit against, given the chance. Basically things that make you torn and confused.
Note that the question tries to avoid the time inconsistency angle. You’d yield to one unit of X right now, given the chance, and you’d precommit against yielding to one unit of X right now, given the chance. Do any of your examples work like that?
I think some people would precommit to never telling lies, if they had the chance, but at the same time, they would lie in the typical Nazi at the door situation, given that they in fact cannot precommit. This has nothing to do with time inconsistency, because after you have lied in such a situation, you don’t find yourself wishing you had told the truth.
Could you rewrite it more clearly? I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking… Besides, offer me to precommit against x why? With which incentive?
I’m looking for examples of temptations that you would yield to, given the chance, and precommit against, given the chance. Basically things that make you torn and confused.
Oh well, that’s easy:
snoozing
snacking
slacking at work
watching too much youtube
etc.
Note that the question tries to avoid the time inconsistency angle. You’d yield to one unit of X right now, given the chance, and you’d precommit against yielding to one unit of X right now, given the chance. Do any of your examples work like that?
Sometimes they do, yes. Not always though. There are times when I would like not to do something but some other subsystem is in control.
I think some people would precommit to never telling lies, if they had the chance, but at the same time, they would lie in the typical Nazi at the door situation, given that they in fact cannot precommit. This has nothing to do with time inconsistency, because after you have lied in such a situation, you don’t find yourself wishing you had told the truth.