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Quote: Principle of Least Effort: people strive to minimize the average rate of work-expenditure they must use to solve immediate problems and probable future problems

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Group:
psychology
Topic:
physics as computation
Topic:
light

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In simple terms, the Principle of Least Effort … background of his probable future problems, as estimated … minimize the total work that he must expend … the person will strive to minimize the probable … effort, by our definition of effort.   Google-1   Google-2

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