I’ve come across mentions of this concepts a few times, and I had a very hard time getting the concept stick in my head. I remember that the concept felt wrong and/or aversive.
However I recently experienced a situation where this was the right tool. At some point in pondering the situation, my brain decided to reach for “split and commit”, and now it just feel like a perfectly normal thing to do. And I also feel like I’ve done this mental move a bunch before, without having any specific name for it.
I can’t replicate my previous reaction to the concept, so I don’t know what’s up with that.
A thing that is not in the essay but that I noticed my self:
In any complicated situation, I will not take one but many seperate action in response. Some of these will be the same in several possible worlds. In my current case in particular, there are more things I would do the same in the less likely world, than I would have naivly expected, if I didn’t acctually concidered it. Noticing this was a relif. It helped me see that [things beeing the other way] did not force me to do something I didn’t want.
I’ve come across mentions of this concepts a few times, and I had a very hard time getting the concept stick in my head. I remember that the concept felt wrong and/or aversive.
However I recently experienced a situation where this was the right tool. At some point in pondering the situation, my brain decided to reach for “split and commit”, and now it just feel like a perfectly normal thing to do. And I also feel like I’ve done this mental move a bunch before, without having any specific name for it.
I can’t replicate my previous reaction to the concept, so I don’t know what’s up with that.
A thing that is not in the essay but that I noticed my self:
In any complicated situation, I will not take one but many seperate action in response. Some of these will be the same in several possible worlds. In my current case in particular, there are more things I would do the same in the less likely world, than I would have naivly expected, if I didn’t acctually concidered it. Noticing this was a relif. It helped me see that [things beeing the other way] did not force me to do something I didn’t want.