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In the absence of a clear preference or plan, I often choose actions that maximize the number of remaining available options. I believe that means that I’m running some kind of regret minimization algorithm. Let me just state for the record that I consider this a terrible way to live.

I used to have these action figures connected to string that you could anchor to different points in a room and the figures would zip down the string in whatever super future fantasy my young mind wanted to cook up that day. When I was younger, I came down with the flu and had a [...]