I agree that most people don’t experience so much akrasia at work (though I have some nagging doubts in the back of my head), but I don’t think this is the mechanism. I don’t have much of an explanation, but I think that it is more about social expectations. or maybe attaching activities to places.
So I don’t think these methods are as effective as workplaces. But that doesn’t say how effective they are, or how to harness the other effects of workplaces.
Let me be a little more specific about other mechanisms. Joel Spolsky’s post on akrasia, the subject of an LW post had this striking line:
eliminating overtime and working strictly 40 hour weeks...won’t reduce a team’s output
I think that is more suggestive of the ways in which workplaces fight akrasia, but I only say “suggestive” since I don’t know what’s actually going on there.
I agree that most people don’t experience so much akrasia at work (though I have some nagging doubts in the back of my head), but I don’t think this is the mechanism. I don’t have much of an explanation, but I think that it is more about social expectations. or maybe attaching activities to places.
So I don’t think these methods are as effective as workplaces. But that doesn’t say how effective they are, or how to harness the other effects of workplaces.
Let me be a little more specific about other mechanisms. Joel Spolsky’s post on akrasia, the subject of an LW post had this striking line:
I think that is more suggestive of the ways in which workplaces fight akrasia, but I only say “suggestive” since I don’t know what’s actually going on there.