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kpreid comments on Group Rationality Diary, July 1-15 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: kpreid 02 July 2014 02:30:53PM 1 point [-]

I find the term slightly confusing, in that it seems like "anti-list" could just as well be a name for the system which is wasting time as opposed to the act of avoiding it.

(In particular, a list of the first kind is an ordering of subtasks to complete some goal, which form a tree or directed graph with a single final node (often not itself on the list). A time-wasting activity of the sort you describe is a an ordering of nodes in a directed graph with a chosen initial node, and is thus opposite-but-analogous.)

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 02 July 2014 05:09:09PM 0 points [-]

I am convinced of the term being sufficiently confusing to warrant changing. Alternative suggestions would be welcome.