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		Y_Y 33 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't w... If I hadn't wanted to avoid diet and exercise more than I wanted to not be weak and overweight then we wouldn't be here.

stuartjohnson12 33 days ago [–]

Who am I but the average weighted sum of my future preferences? Why should the temporal dimension of my preferences allow them to suppress other preferences?

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