FWIW this is not how I learned it in psychology class. It was about humans not wanting to do things that took more energy. Looks like it’s called “principle of least effort” on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_effort
I buy that there’s another thing called Law of Least Effort that’s about signaling, but maybe worth disambiguate by calling it “signaling low effort?”
The similar naming is unfortunate. It’s LoLE in the article I linked explaining it as well as in that author’s book, but I’ll think about disambiguating in the future.
FWIW this is not how I learned it in psychology class. It was about humans not wanting to do things that took more energy. Looks like it’s called “principle of least effort” on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_effort
I buy that there’s another thing called Law of Least Effort that’s about signaling, but maybe worth disambiguate by calling it “signaling low effort?”
The similar naming is unfortunate. It’s LoLE in the article I linked explaining it as well as in that author’s book, but I’ll think about disambiguating in the future.