army1987 comments on The Most Frequently Useful Thing - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 February 2009 06:43PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 November 2013 03:19:00AM *  2 points [-]

Asking myself “Couldn't I get Y without X?” whenever I'm considering doing expensive/time-consuming/non-fun action X in order to get benefit Y.