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From Replacing Guilt, “Half-assing it with everything you’ve got”: The slacker in you rebels against pointless tasks, and the tryer in you wants perfection. So satisfy both: aim for the minimum necessary target, and move there as efficiently as possible. This post in the [[Replacing Guilt]]N series is about the difference between the “quality line” and the “preference curve”. Backlinks [[Replacing Guilt]]N Metadata date: 2022-02-09 15:05 tags: - '@?notes' - '@?

From Replacing Guilt, “Recklessness”: Recklessness is in the ability to say “screw the odds, I’m going to push forward on this path as hard as I can until a better path appears.” If the odds are low, a better path is more likely to appear sooner rather than later — but the reckless let that be a fact about the paths, and they don’t further allow low odds to prevent them from pushing forward on the best path they can currently see, as fast as possible.

From Replacing Guilt, “The value of a life”: If you have money and want to save lives, you had better put a price on life. Lives should be treated as priceless, but it’s instrumentally rational to assign a value to a life in order to effectively do the most good. The gap between the value and the price is a measure of the difference between the universe that is, and the universe that should be.