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Other-Optimizing

Edited by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Vladimir_Nesov last updated 22nd Apr 2012
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Other-optimizing is a failure mode in which a person vastly overestimates their ability to optimize someone else's life, usually as a result of underestimating the differences between themselves and others.

See also

  • Inferential distance
  • Typical mind fallacy

Primary article

  • Beware of Other-Optimizing

Other posts

  • The unfinished mystery of the Shangri-La Diet and Akrasia and Shangri-La

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