Thanks for further varieties! I hadn’t seen the ring, and have had such a clicker but have not got the hang of using it non-awkwardly (where do you put it? With your keys? Who knows where those are? In your pocket? Who reliably has a pocket that fits things in? In your bag? Then you have to dig it out..)
Good point regarding wanting to know what number you have reached. I only want to know the exact number very occasionally, like with a bank account, but I agree that’s not true of many use cases.
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Speaking of the efficiency of utopia
I haven’t read Zvi’s post, but would have thought that the good of slack can be cashed out in efficiency, if you are optimizing for the right goals (e.g. if you have a bunch of tasks in life which contribute to various things, it will turn out that you contribute to those things better overall if you have spare time between the tasks).
If you aren’t in the business of optimizing for the ultimately right goals though, I’d think you could also include slack as one of your instrumental goals, and thus mostly avoid serious conflict e.g. instead of turning out as many cookies per minute as I can, aim to turn out as many cookies as I can while spending half my time not working on it, and setting aside a bag of each ingredient. Perhaps the thought is that this doesn’t work because ‘slack’ is hard to specify, so if you just say that I have to be away from the cookie cutters, I might spend my time strategizing about cookies instead, and that might be somehow not slack in the right way? Plus part of the point is that if things go awry, you want me to be able to put all my time back into cookies briefly?
I grab the string and/or some beads I don’t want to move together between my thumb and finger on one hand, and push the bead I do want to move with my thumb and finger of the other hand. (I don’t need to see it because I can feel it and the beads don’t move with my touching it.) I can also do it more awkwardly with one hand.