Maybe I need to include more context. This conversation occurs after the multiplication was done. This was discussing the aftermath, which had been minimized as much as the minds in question could manage. I took it to mean that, once you have made the best decision you can, there is no guarantee that you will be happy with the outcome, just that it would likely have been worse had you made any other decision.
I think the inability to include that context and make your interpretation clear means that it’s a bad rationality quote because it’s far too easily taken a ‘consequentialism boo!’ quote.
Maybe I need to include more context. This conversation occurs after the multiplication was done. This was discussing the aftermath, which had been minimized as much as the minds in question could manage. I took it to mean that, once you have made the best decision you can, there is no guarantee that you will be happy with the outcome, just that it would likely have been worse had you made any other decision.
I think the inability to include that context and make your interpretation clear means that it’s a bad rationality quote because it’s far too easily taken a ‘consequentialism boo!’ quote.