A Self-Made Billionaire Uses This Easy Trick for Decisions
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#2See how the "Cookie Consent" button overlays the "scroll down" button?
Don't do that.
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#3If you want something like that but with more rigor check out http://lesswrong.com/lw/gu1/decision_theory_faq/.
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#4See how the "Cookie Consent" button overlays the "scroll down" button? Don't do that.
See the "Cookie Consent"?
Don't do that.
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#5So we went from one hard problem (the decision itself), to another another harder problem (ranking things on a scale).
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#6Interestingly this really is a click bait title, rather than the usual one that we misidentify identify as such as "Ten Ways a Programming Language is like a Religion."
This time.com title encourages you to click it with the bait of finding out who the billionaire is, the implication that they became self-made because of this easy trick and not stating the trick. Thus it is bait to lure a user in.
The misdiagnosed versions state exactly what the topic is about but encourages you with the promise of good content. The sting the user gets is that they notice that it is bad content, and the user reacts based on their experience.
In summary, a click bait title, like in this submission is a finely crafted memetic call. The more common observed "click bait" articles are more disappointing in content.
Click bait is about the click, not the content.
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#7You might also find Charlie Munger's mental models useful:
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#8Interestingly this really is a click bait title, rather than the usual one that we misidentify identify as such as "Ten Ways a Programming Language is like a Religion." This time.com title encourages you to click it with the bait of finding out who the billionaire is, the implication that they became self-made because of this easy trick and not stating the trick. Thus it is bait to lure a user in. The misdiagnosed ve…
My response to this kind of article is I clicked to read the comments but not on the article. Comments don't indicate anything all that interesting in the article, so I won't bother to click on the article.
And yeah, it is a very click-baity title. "One weird decision-making trick you can use to become a billionaire!" would be another phrasing of it.
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#9A chap I know uses a 'trick' to help him make decisions - he doesn't make them unless they're important. In a restaurant he'll just tell the waiter to bring him something good. In a bar he'll go for whatever is closest. And so on. The theory, called ego depletion[1], says that you have a limited amount of energy for making decisions and once you use it up you'll find it much harder to make good choices. My friend sold his first company for upwards of $100m, so maybe there's something to it.
I've tried it but I found it incredibly hard. I want to feel in control over the little things too much.
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#10Interestingly this really is a click bait title, rather than the usual one that we misidentify identify as such as "Ten Ways a Programming Language is like a Religion." This time.com title encourages you to click it with the bait of finding out who the billionaire is, the implication that they became self-made because of this easy trick and not stating the trick. Thus it is bait to lure a user in. The misdiagnosed ve…
Would like to disagree on that... If you saw an article, for example 'FTL travel is possible'. You think 'Oh lol wtf, impossible' but you still click on it.
Inside you find a clear well-formed proof and whatever else you need to believe that it is indeed possible. Does that qualify as a clickbait as well?