Akrasia is getting stuck in a local optimum. It’s more pleasant to spend the next instant surfing the internet than writing your paper, so that’s what many simple optimizing algorithms (such as a hill-climbing algorithm) will end up doing, rather than “discover” that having finished the paper will be even better.
Akrasia is getting stuck in a local optimum. It’s more pleasant to spend the next instant surfing the internet than writing your paper, so that’s what many simple optimizing algorithms (such as a hill-climbing algorithm) will end up doing, rather than “discover” that having finished the paper will be even better.