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Re:Distributed Everything by PavlovsCat on Thursday July 04, 2013 @06:33PM (#5992714)
On the other hand.. what's easier, convincing someone to change a habit once, or convincing them four times?
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Re:Distributed Everything by iandundas on Thursday July 04, 2013 @10:39PM (#5993242)
Some diet habits are harder to persuade, and many won't stick with them. So anything is something.
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Re:Distributed Everything by PavlovsCat on Friday July 05, 2013 @03:19AM (#5993763)
anything is something

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_optimum

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Re:Distributed Everything by TeMPOraL on Friday July 05, 2013 @07:42PM (#5997235)
pyre assumes (and I agree with him) that the difficulty (D) of convincing someone to change the habit satisfies:

D(Omnivore => Vegan) > D(Omnivore => No red meat) + D(No red meat => Only fish) + D(Only fish => Vegetarian) + D(Vegetarian => Vegan)

Often intermediate steps are significantly easier to implement than just implementing the end result. It's the same reason for which people tend to break big scary tasks into sequence of many easier ones.

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