Principlev1PR-1074
Establish explicit stopping criteria before beginning any…
Establish explicit stopping criteria before beginning any optimization effort, specifying the threshold that defines 'good enough' and the action that occurs when that threshold is met.
Why This Is a Principle
Grounded in Human beings make decisions under conditions of incomplete… (bounded rationality), Information and attention have an inverse relationship (attention scarcity), and Human attentional systems evolved to prioritize signals… (immediacy bias). This prescribes pre-commitment to stopping rules based on axioms about resource limitations and biased judgment.