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BenFRayfield comments on Is my brain a utility minimizer? Or, the mechanics of labeling things as "work" vs. "fun" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: BenFRayfield 02 September 2015 12:01:41AM 0 points [-]

Work is a failure case, a hole you dig yourself out of. You're doing things in the fun category when you see a danger coming. Your fun will end because you'll be hungry or lack a place to sleep if you dont fix the problem. This is especially true of people who can choose how much work they do and money to make instead of being trained into a schedule. "Work expands to fill all available time" --Parkinson's law. Its like a gas that spreads until you need to do a little more.