aausch comments on Cached Selves - Less Wrong

172 Post author: AnnaSalamon 22 March 2009 07:34PM

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Comment author: aausch 31 December 2009 06:41:56PM *  5 points [-]

Whenever you are about to make a decision which you do not care much about, one way or the other, use one of the following algorithms:

  • Flip a coin (or some other external randomized choice), and base your decision on the result
  • Explicitly avoid the choice(s) you made last time