Modeling Satisfying Life Decisions - by DavidXYu - XY-Wise

I’ve always found myself somewhat confounded by this. Not only because I dropped out of a Canadian university, so I hardly know about US colleges. Instead, something about the shape of the question itself bugs me. Surely between Choice A and Choice B, there is a choice that is “better” than the other right? Surely, one choice will be a better fit, yield more of what I value, and lead to less regret than the other? If we were in a deterministic world where we can have complete information, then this would have to be true. Though, that’s certainly not the world we are in. Not only do we not have complete information, but for many decisions, we can’t even be certain about how much information we don’t have. Any attempt to gain more information to increase the chance of making the “right” decision is useful but seldom conclusive. But we can at least build a probabilistic model to account for incomplete information. This way we can still improve our decisions based on evidence … right? Here

I’ve always found myself somewhat confounded by this. Not only because I dropped out of a Canadian university, so I hardly know about US colleges. Instead, something about the shape of the question itself bugs me. Surely between Choice A and Choice B, there is a choice that is “better” than the other right? Surely, one choice will be a better fit, yield more of what I value, and lead to less regret than the other? If we were in a deterministic world where we can have complete information, then this would have to be true. Though, that’s certainly not the world we are in. Not only do we not have