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> Having more information is rarely a bad thing for making decisions

In some cases it leads to pretty bad things though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdiagnosis

And more generally, the more information you gather, the more extraordinary processing you have to put in place to get anything useful out of it.



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