Duk3 comments on Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors - Less Wrong

91 Post author: Yvain 17 July 2011 08:43PM

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 15 July 2011 02:39:08PM 5 points [-]

All are using their near-complete control of effortless immediate actions to make up for their incomplete control of high-effort long-term actions.

I am interested in examples any non-trivial optimizations that have been achieved by stitching together "effortless immediate actions", any mental equivalents of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip

Comment author: Duk3 26 July 2011 04:07:20AM 5 points [-]

You could consider the creation of the modern economy as a series of effortless immediate actions, an implementation of the greedy algorithm which is codified after the fact into law.