The path of least resistance over a lifetime requires picking hardest next step now. Easiest next step now puts you on hardest lifetime path
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Either way, you're screwed. But if you decide to recognize it now, you can trade some future external effort for some present mental trauma
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...hmm wonder if this is well-posed enough to use as a path constraint to solve a reverse optimization problem to yield fitness fn of 'life'
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Math people: I'll pay modest bounty ($50) for best nontrivial fitness landscape and 2 paths illustrating this
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The path of least resistance over a lifetime requires picking hardest next step now. Easiest next step now puts you on hardest lifetime path
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picking the hardest next step will get you stuck in local maxima. Must randomly take it easy periodically
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taking random steps included in definition of 'hard' in my sense. Gotta model agent mental state, subjective hardness. Not just ext
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optimize for local maxima? Gives you a better vantage point, if nothing else.
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Doing the hardest thing first also allows you the greatest chance to learn and get help before getting judged.
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There are arguments for both. I like hard step first because it's not getting harder in my head. Done, all that remains is easy.
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