Desrtopa comments on The Substitution Principle - LessWrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 01 February 2012 01:56:19PM *  1 point [-]

My immediate thought was "Do you mean the best for reliably becoming affluent, or the ones that have the potential to make you the richest?"

I think I have a pretty general tendency to stay on system 2 reasoning when asked hard to answer questions by reflexively looking for ways to clarify rather than reframe the question. I don't know if this is something I ever went through a learning process for.

I often find myself getting stuck on the "come up with a better solution" step though. Since I didn't generate another answer in the first place, "How should financial advisers who prey on the elderly be punished?" becomes "How much do I care about working out a fair, effectively preventative punishment for financial advisers who prey on the elderly? I could be at this for a while."

At least coming up with an answer of "I don't care enough about this/have a good reason to figure this out properly" gives you useful information on your own motives and the gaps in your knowledge.