i'm sure people make ego depletion / executive function budget / etc etc into an endless series of excuses and other straw men but nonetheless years before i heard of any of these concepts i was having a conversation with a couple of coworkers who were moving
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i remember reading a study once that observed that people were less capable of resisting having a slice a cake after they finished a series of complex calculus, suggested there was indeed a limited, shared pool of resources for these things
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iirc that's what the ego depletion studies were trying to show – but they haven't done too well in the replication crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_controversy_and_conflicting_meta_analyses … it's something that feels like it should be intuitively true, though, so maybe we just haven't figured out how to measure it well
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The difference between "ego depletion" and "decision-making is like a muscle" is that in the latter case, practice lets you get better. In the former, the emphasis is on how decision energy is bounded no matter what you do. I've read that the Greeks believed it was like a muscle.
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This guy gets it. Part of the "training" is developing techniques to help you bound your own behaviors.https://twitter.com/s_pitchfork/status/1169291123573043200 …
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ddosing people irl by asking them if they're sure about that over and over
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