FWIW, I’m not a fan of “akrasia”—seems unnecessarily highfalutin to me. Most stuff tagged with “akrasia” is essentially about procrastination, not akrasia as a philosophical problem. (Just found this article on Google.) I think it’s OK for LW to use jargon, but we should recognize jargon comes with a cost, and there’s no reason to pay the cost if we aren’t getting any particular benefit.
(crl826 mentioned that “procrastination” is another related tag in the latest open thread.)
FWIW, I’m not a fan of “akrasia”—seems unnecessarily highfalutin to me. Most stuff tagged with “akrasia” is essentially about procrastination, not akrasia as a philosophical problem. (Just found this article on Google.) I think it’s OK for LW to use jargon, but we should recognize jargon comes with a cost, and there’s no reason to pay the cost if we aren’t getting any particular benefit.
(crl826 mentioned that “procrastination” is another related tag in the latest open thread.)