Axel comments on The Fallacy of Dressing Like a Winner - Less Wrong

19 Post author: benelliott 26 December 2010 08:59PM

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Comment author: Axel 27 December 2010 10:57:21PM 1 point [-]

That reminds me of something my sister did at her last job. Every time there was trouble she would get an email about it. Clearly a problem appearing and receiving mail was correlated, so her solution was to terminate her mail account. She called it the Shrödinger cat approach to life: as long as you aren't sure there is a problem, there is a chance there isn't.

Comment author: TobyBartels 28 December 2010 12:55:45AM 5 points [-]

If her real goal was to spend less time fixing problems, then this was rational of her.