[HN Gopher] Risk and Regret
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       Risk and Regret
        
       Author : yarapavan
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-02-10 18:26 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | chewz wrote:
       | Written by ChatGPT - seems like it...
        
       | gopalv wrote:
       | > is having a well-calibrated sense of your future regret
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       | If there's a single thing you learn from experience is how you
       | feel when things go poorly.
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       | Regret seems to need some sort of hope that if you could go back
       | in time, you could choose a different path purely by your own
       | actions.
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       | That you believe that you are the person who drives your life
       | forward.
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       | On the other hand, I've met a few fatalistic people who had zero
       | regrets, relying on the future to be decided for them whatever
       | their actions are.
        
       | Ishmaeli wrote:
       | Reminds me of a study from several years ago which found that we
       | tend to regret virtuous decisions more than indulgent ones over
       | time:
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       | https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfile...
        
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