Addiction as Entrenchment

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Dennis HackethalOP​·​#4656

Many problems related to addiction and procrastination stem from people’s overoptimism about their willpower, their simultaneous pessimism about the solubility of problems, and their ignorance as to the unintended consequences of self-coercion.