That was, I believe, implicit in the original post. The reason that it’s scary is that it doesn’t just apply to scratching a rash, it also applies to doing hard drugs.
Reference points, as used by default, make it very easy to throw your life away. That’s what makes it scary.
In the timespan under discussion
you just justified crack usage
That was, I believe, implicit in the original post. The reason that it’s scary is that it doesn’t just apply to scratching a rash, it also applies to doing hard drugs.
Reference points, as used by default, make it very easy to throw your life away. That’s what makes it scary.
“Jam now” is a necessary condition, not a sufficient one.
If I decide to, say, learn Spanish, then I expect every hour spent on the task, including the first one, to pay a perceptible return.
I accept this as a valid point—first hour/day is an important heuristic indicator of goodness, but Eli wrote