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Julia Galef: How to be Wrong Correctly

"World of DaaS"

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Thinking Experiments Work for Personal Decisions

There's no right formula for making these decisions. A thought experiment you can do is to imagine that a friend of yours was in the same situation, with the same, you know, boy friend with the same problems. How would you feel about that plan? Would you feel optimistic or not? Many times we have a bias towards putting on rose coloured glasses in our own life and beating ourselves up over things other people wouldn't beat us up over. So there maybe be some kind of happy medium like person that you should be imagining in that thought experiment. This has been awesome. Please come join my musings on twitter about this and other subjects.

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