Comment by MrGoose on Concentration of Force · 2021-11-15T17:07:53.690Z · LW · GW

Great article. One comment - the Oreo story is an explicitly negative example. You are choosing to ‘not’ to do something. I’m not sure the effective force principle works so well for positive actions. To take one example - I am struggling to exercise at the moment. To my mind the key to starting to exercise again is establishing a routine (e.g. go for a run every morning) but this seems to be a different framework to the idea of applying maximum force at the opportune moment. How would the effective force principle work in this context?