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Tough Choices and Disappointment 2021-12-24T21:59:00.970Z

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Comment by maralorn on Tough Choices and Disappointment · 2021-12-26T01:46:36.965Z · LW · GW

I agree with your definition of disappointment. And I agree that the concepts choice and disappointment are quite far apart.

My biggest point was "accept the world first", like you said. The open question is how common the problem I tried to describe is.

I still have the feeling that not having accepted a disappointment is a common reason for choices to feel hard. That doesn‘t seem obvious with your definition of “tough” choice, though. I was going for a more narrow definition, which would make that statement more tautological. I like your definition, and mine was a bit ad-hoc.

Need to think more about this …

Comment by maralorn on Tough Choices and Disappointment · 2021-12-26T01:09:42.501Z · LW · GW

A very good point, thanks. I will try to improve on that.

The next time I write a sentence with so many qualifiers, I should probably just write „not sure“.