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That's such an irrational assertion, ironically enough. Every decision has a trade off, even non-engineering decisions. It's called opportunity cost.

• woodman 11y ago
  > It's called opportunity cost. The law of conservation of energy, as close to the metal as it gets. I remember reading about the same thing in terms of algorithmic complexity (in the context of data compression), and how one can only shift entropy about. Anybody got any keywords handy for practical examples? My hour of searching ended with conservation of information and black holes...
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• anon1385 11y ago
  Opportunity cost doesn't make all decisions zero-sum. There is a quirk of human psychology that makes us believe that most things must be zero sum (i.e. that anything I do that improves something I care about must have a 'payback' at a later date and that to achieve a good outcome I must always make an equivalent sacrifice). JabavuAdams is falling for that. Although his inability to control his own violent emotional outbursts is probably going to be the more significant problem in his life.
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