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Mini Blog Post 22: The world is full of wasted motion — Neel Nanda

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The default state of the world is that things are inefficient, that 20% of the effort put in results in 80% of the output. This is a fundamental part of how I see the world, and this post outlines how I have internalised this idea, and how to pursue the clever hacks that can make things better

Mini Blog Post 22: The world is full of wasted motion Jul 1 Written By Neel Nanda (Meta note: This post falls pretty far on the ‘yay optimisation’ side of life advice. I think optimisation is generally great, but has common pitfalls, and it’s important to be aware of these and avoid them. To balance this, this post goes well with my posts on the dangers of naive optimisation (and what to do about this), and on the importance of leaving yourself Slack and spare capacity , rather than trying to optimise every last moment of your life. See the Afterword for more thoughts) Introduction The 80/20 r

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