Strange7 comments on Levels of Action - Less Wrong

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Comment author: GilPanama 16 April 2011 07:23:40AM * 1 point [-]

Thinking of Level 1 actions as maintenance is an excellent analogy.

This talk of swimming suggests another analogy for spending too much time on high level actions:

Overoptimizing is like trying to infer the properties of an optimal raft while you are drowning.

Comment author: Strange7 17 April 2011 11:32:09PM * 3 points [-]

Like many good ideas, somebody had it before and it was taken as a joke.

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