diff --git a/helpful_life_advice.myco b/helpful_life_advice.myco index 096e066..3defddf 100644 --- a/helpful_life_advice.myco +++ b/helpful_life_advice.myco @@ -10,10 +10,11 @@ *. Frequently check whether what you are doing is actually valuable to your goals, and whether what you think are your goals are actually what you want. *. Type faster. *. You can conveniently ignore things which you cannot affect, saving time and reducing how much time you spend annoyed. If you don't like it, become God. -*. Unfortunately, those things will likely not be fixed (see also [[https://www.theonion.com/smart-qualified-people-behind-the-scenes-keeping-ameri-1819571706]]). +*. Unfortunately, those things will likely not be fixed. See also [[https://www.theonion.com/smart-qualified-people-behind-the-scenes-keeping-ameri-1819571706]]. *. Specialization is for insects, which are wildly successful and make up the majority of terrestrial animal biomass. *. Math(s) is very good. *. Often, the last few details of a solution take up the majority of the time. If you want to, you can probably ignore them or write a good-enough heuristic. *. Practice makes you better at things, but so does randomly being talented for no obvious reason. *. In situations with discrete win/loss cutoffs you may be better off increasing variance rather than expectation. -*. If you predict that you will do/believe a thing in some circumstance, and predict that that circumstance will happen, update all the way and do/believe the thing now. \ No newline at end of file +*. If you predict that you will do/believe a thing in some circumstance, and predict that that circumstance will happen, update all the way and do/believe the thing now. +*. When deciding on a course of action in an uncertain situation, commit to something and do it properly rather than inefficiently trying to handle every possible scenario. See also [[https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FMkQtPvzsriQAow5q/the-correct-response-to-uncertainty-is-not-half-speed]]. \ No newline at end of file