Rationalizing one course of action as having no major downsides doesn't just make a decision easier; in humans, it's what a decision *is*.
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(Epistemic status: Wrong, but what are you going to do about it?)
Rationalists struggle with akrasia because not rationalizing away downsides means abandoning the human brain's decision-making mechanism.
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They might think they've decided. They might even, technically, undertake the course of action they "decided" on. But they haven't decided.
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What are the long-term psychological effects of constantly doing things you didn't decide to do?
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Anyway, rationalizing away the downsides of your decisions is also bad, of course. I don't think I have a solution.
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