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ARG-005: The reluctant writer's precommitment device changes what they do without changing what they want, so the conditions of efficacy govern which regime acts

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StatusProposed
Formcontrast
Tagsagency, self-governance
Linewill-organization
GroundsCASE-013 — The reluctant writer
ConcludesCLAIM-027 — Which of an agent's available regimes becomes effective depends on maintained relations — accessibility, precedence, persistence, jurisdiction, suspension and transformation — that are not reducible to the contents of the competing regimes, whatever mechanisms realize them
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The inference

The same long-term preference, before and after blocking distracting websites; different behaviour after. The difference is in the conditions of efficacy.

Critical questions

  • Is the preference really unchanged? Arguably: installing the device may express a strengthened preference. The paper’s answer is that the content of the competing regimes need not change for behaviour to change.
  • Does it reach the meta-regulatory dimensions? No. It shows precedence and accessibility; jurisdiction and suspension have only institutional examples. So this line supports the efficacy dimensions of CLAIM-027, and the cross-scale claim for the meta-regulatory ones rests on Northstar alone.

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