Comment on [META] 'Rational' vs 'Optimized'

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:50:26 GMT

I was thinking about whether telling someone I'm an aspiring optimizer is going to result in less confusion than telling them that I'm an aspiring rationalist. I think that the term 'optimizer' needs a little more specification to work; how about Decision Optimization? If I tell someone I'm working on decision optimization, I pretty effectively convey what I'm doing - learning and practicing heuristics in order to make better decisions.

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