Can neither you nor Raemon imagine that there are people out there for whom shooting a 1 in 10 shot climbing Big Hill is a good decision?
It seems to me just the wrong genre from “good decision”. Good decisions are like building new political systems or doing science or navigating existential risks. 31 people who crawled up a mountain and died seems not related to any of the things.
The fearsome part to me is that I am one of these people. They are not that much different from me. My life trajectory will in all likelihood probably make about as much sense looking back on it.
It seems to me just the wrong genre from “good decision”. Good decisions are like building new political systems or doing science or navigating existential risks. 31 people who crawled up a mountain and died seems not related to any of the things.
The fearsome part to me is that I am one of these people. They are not that much different from me. My life trajectory will in all likelihood probably make about as much sense looking back on it.
This comment seems super weird to me. Do good decisions not also include ‘did a thing that was fun or meaningful to you?’
I am thinking in the set of “things you will give your entire life to”, given that these people dedicated themselves to it, and it killed them.