Vaniver comments on The utility of information should almost never be negative - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 31 January 2012 01:10:41AM 0 points [-]

As humans, we don't work that way. We don't constantly feel the pressure of knowledge like “People might have died since I last watched the news,” just because humans don't deal with probability in a rational manner.

Isn't this a thing some people do? Call your mother.

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