Optimal is subjective and moment can be any amount of time
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2025
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Is it:
"Mmm no very unwise"
or
"Mmm very wise"
Post your wisdom and we'll decide.
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agreed. upon introspection, i think i make wisdoms with that subjective perspective set to the target person of the wisdom (which is usually myself). and interesting bit about moment being any amount of time. i often view a moment as like a slice of time aka one instant. tho your view is probably more correct as it would be hard to actually perform actions on a minimum time scale.
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?
i vote nonwise on my own wisdom because, while concise and true, it is too obvious