A philosophical problem I've been thinking about reduces to this: how long should the hare nap if it isn't sure it's in a race with the tortoise, or where the tortoise is if there is one, to have a better than even odds of winning the race, if there is indeed a race on
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don't need pills, I'm good at this sort of thinking out of the box 😎
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Isn’t this just Pascal’s wager, assuming winning the race has infinite utility?
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Good connection. Of course, this is the finite utility case.
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Trust me, workaholism is the only long time stable solution to that
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the hare needs to be self-motivated and define her own race
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There's a difference between sleeping (necessity) & napping (luxury). I say never nap, but he should only nap if he doesn't mind losing the race because probability of win decreases proportionally to nap time.







