To banish “just”s, approach every decision as a decision about how you are going to handle all similar situations, instead of “just” this one — a decision about what person you want to be.
Indeed.
Related: Making Exceptions to General Rules; also, Lullaby Language (one of my favorite pieces of “rationality” writing that comes from far outside the lesswrongosphere).
See also: “How I lost 100 pounds using Timeless Decision Theory”.
TDT is the mathematical unification of virtue ethics and consequentialism.
To banish “just”s, approach every decision as a decision about how you are going to handle all similar situations, instead of “just” this one — a decision about what person you want to be.
Indeed.
Related: Making Exceptions to General Rules; also, Lullaby Language (one of my favorite pieces of “rationality” writing that comes from far outside the lesswrongosphere).
See also: “How I lost 100 pounds using Timeless Decision Theory”.
TDT is the mathematical unification of virtue ethics and consequentialism.