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Gavin comments on What are the most common and important trade-offs that decision makers face? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gavin 03 November 2014 09:06:16PM 4 points [-]

The most standard business tradeoff is Cheap vs Fast vs Good, which typically you're only supposed to be able to get two of.

Comment author: Andy_McKenzie 04 November 2014 02:19:13AM 3 points [-]

Yeah I find these three pronged trade-offs fairly interesting. I think it's wrong to say "choose two"; for example, you could always choose to be somewhere in the middle if you consider the space to be a triangle.

Do you know of the word for a three pronged trade-off?

Comment author: Gavin 04 November 2014 03:38:49PM 2 points [-]

Trilemma maybe?

Comment author: Vulture 06 November 2014 03:58:44PM 1 point [-]

But in a trilemma you can only get one, not two, right?