The Planning Problem - LessWrong - Zachary Robertson  ## Metadata - Author: **Zachary Robertson** - Full Title: The Planning Problem - LessWrong - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z83bXYf8XFppYn2Z7/the-planning-problem#A_First_Example ## Highlights - The intuition seems to be that there is a strategy that can balance the objectives of planning and executing optimally. However, over the years I’ve caught myself making the error of measuring the effectiveness of having a plan or strategy in terms of how much time it saves me in carrying out the task. Yet, I will commonly ignore the time spent on creating a strategy in the first place. For example, while I was writing this article I spent a significant amount of time crafting a uniqueness proof for the optimal strategy