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jsteinhardt comments on Macro, not Micro - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: jsteinhardt 06 January 2013 05:29AM

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 06 January 2013 07:52:46PM 2 points [-]

I think that's related, but different. I really like the quote though!

The difference is that I don't necessarily think the "design" (in this case I guess overall life structure) will be less clean if you micro-optimize, but it will take away cognitive and habit-forming resources away from the things that are actually important.

Although I suppose in the limit of absurd amounts of micro-optimization, it might indeed lead to a pretty cluttered life...