Other-optimizing

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Other-optimizing is a failure mode in which a person vastly overestimates their ability to optimize someone else's life, usually as a result of underestimating the differences between themselves and others.

See also

• Inferential distance
• Typical mind fallacy

Primary article

• Beware of Other-Optimizing

Other posts

• The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet and Akrasia and Shangri-La
• All Less Wrong posts tagged "other_optimizing"