Did Eliezer or someone else with admin rights just edit the tags? I don’t think this is really relevant to akrasia, as it isn’t about doing something that wouldn’t otherwise be done at all, but ignoring thoughts known to be erroneous(“I’m at the limit of my strength”), making a convulsive effort and doing the winning thing instead of the “sensible” or “rational.”
Maybe. How well do we think the ability to push one’s self exceptionally hard during exercise correlates to non exercise akrasia or believing uncomfortable things in general?
For the first data point, I have a friend that does adventure racing, and his whole team
‘takes turns’ hallucinating, and rely on those less insane at the moment to keep them going in the right direction.
He doesn’t seem to have akrasia problems, but does hold beliefs that I think are only there because it’d be uncomfortable and unPC to believe otherwise.
Did Eliezer or someone else with admin rights just edit the tags? I don’t think this is really relevant to akrasia, as it isn’t about doing something that wouldn’t otherwise be done at all, but ignoring thoughts known to be erroneous(“I’m at the limit of my strength”), making a convulsive effort and doing the winning thing instead of the “sensible” or “rational.”
Wouldn’t ignoring thoughts known to be erroneous despite immense physical pressure to listen to them be a display of extreme rationality?
Maybe. How well do we think the ability to push one’s self exceptionally hard during exercise correlates to non exercise akrasia or believing uncomfortable things in general?
For the first data point, I have a friend that does adventure racing, and his whole team ‘takes turns’ hallucinating, and rely on those less insane at the moment to keep them going in the right direction.
He doesn’t seem to have akrasia problems, but does hold beliefs that I think are only there because it’d be uncomfortable and unPC to believe otherwise.