xamdam comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: xamdam 18 February 2010 05:15:04PM 1 point [-]

Sounds like good rules of thumb, though one would think DARPA should be using something a little more formal, such as Decision Analysis methodology.

http://decision.stanford.edu/library/the-principles-and-applications-of-decision-analysis-1

For one, value of acquiring information did not make the list. Maybe this was a dumbed-down version.