Published on August 24, 2025 9:50 AM GMT TL;DR: I'm trying to get across an emotionally useful framework for thinking about emotionally useful frameworks (optimisms), "the bar of success" and personal responsibility. Every agent faces a fundamental problem: When to stop thinking and start acting? (exploring/exploiting) Humans have solved this by becoming satisficers. Instead of figuring out the optimal action at every point in time, we merely act in a way that feels "good enough". From the pe...
