"MiniMax" - Minimize your expenditures (of energy and time) while
Maximizing your benefits (of health and so forth), is one other name
I've heard for that.  AKA "Common Sense" <G>  (Which isn't common enough
for my liking.)

  Mark

root wrote:
> <snipped>
> I think another approach may be more useful: it is a game-theory approach.
> I use it in the all-day life. The main idea is: I order a value to every
> insure events. The value equals to the probability of the event multiplied
> by the gain or loss resulted by the event. E. g. if I cross a road, I take
> measures not to be hit by a car. Why: because of the value of the event is
> high enough to do this despite of the low probability, due to the very
> high value of the loss. The costs of the counter-measure (look left, then
> right) are lower, than the negative value of the event to be hit, so, the
> decision will be correct.
>
> I hope I could express myself in an understandeable way.
>
> Imre
>
> On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, James Newton wrote:
>
> > Here is a thought: The level of Paranoid delusion in any society is directly
> > proportional to the frequency of actual conspiracy's. When conspiracy's
> > exist, they increase the number of Paranoids who survive and reproduce. When
> > they don't exist, paranoia is less useful and Paranoids expend energy that
> > would better be directed to other activities which are more likely to be
> > attractive to a mate.
> >
> >
> >
> > James Newton, webmaster http://get.to/techref
> > jamesnewton@geocities.com <mailto:jamesnewton@geocities.com>
> > 1-619-652-0593 phone
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of root
> > Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 11:09 PM
> > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [OT] Right to Listen - Reversed
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > the thread begins to remember me to Andy Grove's sentence (he is also from
> > Hungary...): "Only the paranoids survive".
> >
> > Imre
> >
> >