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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
Principlev1PR-1592

Classify every willpower expenditure as either irreducible…

Classify every willpower expenditure as either irreducible (requiring genuine judgment) or operational (automatable) — systematically eliminate operational expenditures.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (willpower as finite resource), Cognition Operates Through Dual Processing Systems (System 1 vs System 2), and Human beings make decisions under conditions of incomplete… (bounded rationality). Prescribes classification and systematic replacement as optimization strategy.