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Comment author: [deleted] 01 September 2011 02:38:27PM 15 points [-]

On practical questions of urgent importance we must make up our minds one way or the other even when we know that the evidence is incomplete. To refuse to make up our minds is equivalent to deciding to leave things as they are (which is just as likely as any other to be the wrong solution).

-- Robert H. Thouless

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 September 2011 12:28:09PM *  1 point [-]

(Only in the sense of constructing some plan of action (or inaction) that currently seems no worse than others, not in the sense of deciding to believe things you have no grounds for believing. "Make up your mind" is a bad phrase because of this equivocation.)

Comment author: juliawise 05 September 2011 12:21:35PM 1 point [-]

...Unless your decision makes things worse.

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