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Is it:

"Mmm no very unwise"

or

"Mmm very wise"

Post your wisdom and we'll decide.

  1. Be excellent to each other.

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There is an optimal action for every moment. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

You should ask what is an optimal action and how does it correlate to any specific slice of time. Once the slice of time is over, is the action still optimal? Given what you know 'in the future', suppose you could've go back in time, is it still optimal?

Optimal is an absolute which we do not have enough information to determine.

Linguistically you are correct though since a moment is a brief amount of time. But that's still ambiogus. Is a year a brief amount of time? What if we only had 1 year to live? Is it a moment or not?