Approximately all of them. My book-reading rate isn’t much slower than my book-buying rate.
In that case, I wouldn’t call it ‘a phenomenal waste of money’, which renders the next paragraph of your comment rather pointless.
I think that principle is sub-optimal.
Now that I think about it… The principle is not sub-optimal (unless you start optimising for the amount of suffering in the world or something) but, yes, the implied strategy (optimise ALL the things!! Optimise whatever seems sub-optimal! Optimise them NOW!) definitely is.
...which I justify (in so far as I do) in what I take to be the usual ways...
Ah, a Fully General Counter-Counterargument to counter a Fully General Counterargument. Fair enough, I guess.
I will now edit my original comment to reflect this discussion.
In that case, I wouldn’t call it ‘a phenomenal waste of money’, which renders the next paragraph of your comment rather pointless.
Now that I think about it… The principle is not sub-optimal (unless you start optimising for the amount of suffering in the world or something) but, yes, the implied strategy (optimise ALL the things!! Optimise whatever seems sub-optimal! Optimise them NOW!) definitely is.
Ah, a Fully General Counter-Counterargument to counter a Fully General Counterargument. Fair enough, I guess.
I will now edit my original comment to reflect this discussion.
Edit: Done.