juliawise comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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

...Unless your decision makes things worse.