The harms of it are well known and established. You can look them up.
It’s beside the point however. Replace it with whatever cause you want—spreading democracy, ending the war on drugs, ending homelessness, making more efficient electrical devices.
The argument is the path to the end is convoluted, not clear ahead of time. Although we can have guideposts and learn from history, the idea that today you can “optmize” on an unsolved problem can be faintly ridiculous.
James Clear has zero idea of what is good or great and the idea that you can sit there and start crossing off “good” things in favor of “great” is also highly flawed.
Hence the examples of reducing HIV infection rates and reducing health consequences of infection. Not an OR gate but an AND and the idea of opportunity cost doesn’t really apply.
One flaw with your argument though...
you seem to think it would be a good thing? Why?
How is that a flaw?
The harms of it are well known and established. You can look them up.
It’s beside the point however. Replace it with whatever cause you want—spreading democracy, ending the war on drugs, ending homelessness, making more efficient electrical devices.
The argument is the path to the end is convoluted, not clear ahead of time. Although we can have guideposts and learn from history, the idea that today you can “optmize” on an unsolved problem can be faintly ridiculous.
James Clear has zero idea of what is good or great and the idea that you can sit there and start crossing off “good” things in favor of “great” is also highly flawed.
Hence the examples of reducing HIV infection rates and reducing health consequences of infection. Not an OR gate but an AND and the idea of opportunity cost doesn’t really apply.