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You presume that I would rather live longer and drink than live for a shorter time and not drink. I deliberately take actions which do not maximize my expected lifespan, because a day of my life has finite value.
For example, drinking 2-4 drinks will impair me for a period of about 2-4 hours. That is a statistically significant portion of the day.
Nitpick: Why not just "significant"?
“Nitpick” understates it. That's a pretty bad example of inflationary use of terms.
I wouldn't call 2-4 drinks impairment... then again I don't often drink in a time span that I would otherwise spend doing productive or difficult things.
Same here. Mild sleep deprivation usually impairs me much more (and the two things don't seem to add linearly for me -- if I'm already sleep-deprivated, drinking alcohol on top of that won't make things much worse). Then again, I'm about 90 kg (198 lb) and this needn't generalize to smaller people.