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A small practice for the open-ended search

A practical exercise: Write what evidence would be enough to make the next small choice.

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Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

  1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A search has no clear condition for being complete.
  2. Write what evidence would be enough to make the next small choice.
  3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
  4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.

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