What you describe is not a factual mistake, nor does it strike me as a moral error. It is merely an aesthetic judgment. Though it might be a mistake if you are wasting too much attention and thus deprive yourself of superior experience.
Agreed. I have trouble accepting this as a true irrationality. It strikes me as merely a preference. You lose time you could be listening to song A because of your desire to have the same play count for song B, but this is because you prefer the world where playcounts are equal to the world where they are unequal but you hear a specific song more. Is that really an irrational preference?
I also agree with VN’s disclaimer: this time spent [wasted?] on equalizing playcounts could probably be used for something else. But at what point does the preference for a certain aesthetic outcome become irrational? What about someone who prefers a blue shirt to a red one? What about someone who can’t enjoy a television show because the living room is messy? Someone who can’t enjoy a party because there’s an odd number of people attending? Someone who insists on eating the same lunch every day? Some of these are probably indicators of OCD, but it’s really just an extreme point on a spectrum of aesthetic and similar preferences. At what point do preferences become irrational?
What you describe is not a factual mistake, nor does it strike me as a moral error. It is merely an aesthetic judgment. Though it might be a mistake if you are wasting too much attention and thus deprive yourself of superior experience.
Agreed. I have trouble accepting this as a true irrationality. It strikes me as merely a preference. You lose time you could be listening to song A because of your desire to have the same play count for song B, but this is because you prefer the world where playcounts are equal to the world where they are unequal but you hear a specific song more. Is that really an irrational preference?
I also agree with VN’s disclaimer: this time spent [wasted?] on equalizing playcounts could probably be used for something else. But at what point does the preference for a certain aesthetic outcome become irrational? What about someone who prefers a blue shirt to a red one? What about someone who can’t enjoy a television show because the living room is messy? Someone who can’t enjoy a party because there’s an odd number of people attending? Someone who insists on eating the same lunch every day? Some of these are probably indicators of OCD, but it’s really just an extreme point on a spectrum of aesthetic and similar preferences. At what point do preferences become irrational?