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I'm about ready for maxxmaxxing, where there's just maximally more of everything all the time

• Sharlin 3mo ago
  I’m waiting for the inevitable counterreaction to all this maxxing business, dubbed "minmaxxing"
  • Paul_Clayton 3mo ago
    In D&D, min-maxing (hyphen and one x) is already a used term for character optimization, minimizing undesirables and maximizing desirables (I guess). Minimizing peaks is probably not a good strategy generally. Even low peaks may have some benefit ("if you know your problem is in this domain and performance is critical, this tool offers a 3% advantage"). Minimizing troughs may be more attractive. People generally seem to react more strongly to negatives and competitors can devise benchmarks which emphasize one's troughs. While a universal expert would be convenient and broad knowledge aids some forms of creativity, specialization has substantial advantages. Trading max performance (primary metric of concern) for some improvement in a secondary metric often makes sense and that could be an interpretation of "minmaxxing", reducing the over-emphasis of a single metric which would otherwise be maximized.
    • Sharlin 3mo ago
      Yes, it was a subtle referencing to rpg minmaxing, and also the minimax algorithm, beyond the more surface-level idea that "maximalist" trends tend to be followed by "minimalist" ones as a natural counterreaction.