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Mini Blog Post 9: What it means to optimise — Neel Nanda

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Why optimisation is the correct action by definition, and responses to common objections and mistakes

Mini Blog Post 9: What it means to optimise Jun 18 Written By Neel Nanda If you’ve gotten to my ninth post, it’s probably no surprise to you that I’m a big fan of optimising my life! Optimisation, as I define it, is the process of taking actions that best achieve your goals . As stated, I consider it pretty tautologically obvious that this is a good idea. You can take actions that bring you closer to your goals, or you can take other actions. But I get into pretty frequent arguments about whether this is a good idea. And it’s easy to get defensive, and fall back to this definition, and argue t

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