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RowanE comments on Irrationality Game III - Less Wrong
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That seems to be phrased to be as easy to agree with as possible - almost anyone into life-optimization recognises that there's a limit to how much is worth the effort, and will read your sentence as referring to the amount of life-optimization that they see as too much, and will agree.
Assuming you actually want to play to win in this game, you should identify a specific example or degree of life-optimization that you think isn't worth it, that you expect most of LW to incorrectly think is actually worth it.
A friend of mine used to work for a guy who insisted on enforcing an exact maximum number of mouse clicks to reply to an email. The guy had to send autoreplies to emails all day, and he was required to apply his boss's exactly-these-clicks-here-and-here-and-not-one-more method.
That's the level of optimization that I find counterproductive.