Julia Galef | The Benefits of Seeing the World as It Is
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The Course of Self Sabotage Is Present Bias
You say that one of the most frustrating aspects of being human is our knack for undermining our own goals. The course of self sabotage is present bias, a feature of our intuitive decision making in which we care too much about short term consequences and too little about long term consequences. We're impatient and we get more impatient as the potential words grow closer. And so I think there were way to actually overcome this because everybody knows smoking is bad for you, but it feels good when you smoke a cigarette after a drink. You don't see the consequences of your behavior immediate. But here, if you screw around on Instagram at eight o'clock in the morning, he said, you know it's
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