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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, for example through the [[typical mind fallacy]].

==Blog posts==

*[http://lesswrong.com/lw/9v/beware_of_otheroptimizing/ Beware of Other-Optimizing]
*[http://lesswrong.com/lw/a6/the_unfinished_mystery_of_the_shangrila_diet/ The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet]
*[http://lesswrong.com/lw/ab/akrasia_and_shangrila/ Akrasia and Shangri-La]
*[http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/ Generalizing from One Example] by [[Yvain]]

==See also==
*[[Human universal]]
*[[Inferential distance]]
*[[Akrasia]]

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