"Pretty cheap"? I looked up the prices once in the name of VoI and saw numbers in the range of $2,500.
$2500 is pretty cheap for a surgery, or for a form of eye care that lasts for decades. I've spent several hundred over the last 5 years, and I don't even have contacts.
I'm pretty sure I can improve my life more than LASIK would with $2,500 worth of other improvements.
Great. Do you just feel compelled to let everyone know when a comment does not apply specifically to you? That must be exhausting.
I'm pretty sure I can improve my life more than LASIK would with $2,500 worth of other improvements.
Do you just feel compelled to let everyone know when a comment does not apply specifically to you?
The implicature of the comment was that it might apply to other people, too. I think this presumption is reasonable. For example, the cost of LASIK exceeds the cost of all the other improvements suggested in this thread combined (for which prices were given).
Thus spake Eliezer:
It seems that many here might have outlandish ideas for ways of improving our lives. For instance, a recent post advocated installing really bright lights as a way to boost alertness and productivity. We should not adopt such hacks into our dogma until we're pretty sure they work; however, one way of knowing whether a crazy idea works is to try implementing it, and you may have more ideas than you're planning to implement.
So: please post all such lifehack ideas! Even if you haven't tried them, even if they seem unlikely to work. Post them separately, unless some other way would be more appropriate. If you've tried some idea and it hasn't worked, it would be useful to post that too.