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What a terrible word. Seems like it's for people who like to kick the can down the road and convince themselves they're doing something good and 'out of the bo
by secondcoming 2y ago
What a terrible word.
Seems like it's for people who like to kick the can down the road and convince themselves they're doing something good and 'out of the box'
- jp57 2y agoThat totally describes Herb Simon, for sure.
- wenc 2y agoInstead of being so hostile toward a word that you've just encountered, how would it be if we were more curious about the concept behind it? Satisficing is a form of constraint satisfaction under certainty, which although leads to local optima, can turn out to be more robust to unknowns. Optimization assumes a correct model of the world, and that we can find a point within that model that gives us the best trade-offs (optimum). But our models of the world are often incomplete or wrong. And even if we get to that optimum point, we back ourselves into a corner if the environment ever changes on us. Instead, iteratively finding a satisfactory solutions that helps us make progress in the right direction is often far more valuable, and more robust to model mismatches to the real world.
- rufus_foreman 2y ago>> What a terrible word. I agree. It's truly cromulent.
- xyzzy123 2y agoLiving is just kicking the can down the road for a while until you can't anymore.