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0 pointsZetice2y ago0 comments

Conversely, why wouldn't someone believe something if there are no consequences to being wrong?

As you say, unless you regularly dance at the bleeding edge of material science, nothing you believe really matters, so why not jump in with both feet?

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jprete2y ago

Because it leads to a habit of getting overly excited about every press release.

Turskarama2y ago

And then burning out when too many of them turn out to be nothing and deciding no progress ever gets made.

ZeticeOP2y ago

This begs the question; why "overly", why not just "excited"?

qup2y ago

For some of us, being wrong is its own consequence.

ZeticeOP2y ago

Seems like a great way to paralyze oneself.

qup2y ago

It can manifest like that, sure. It's not up to me, though. "Great ways" to do things are usually optional.

I mostly can work with it. It helps make me very good at certain tasks.

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beaned2y ago

Eventually such a practice will bite you in the ass when you form an opinion on something you think doesn't matter, but actually turns out to matter.

ZeticeOP2y ago

This presumes all of your opinions are wrong, and further presumes you'd hold these beliefs strongly when information changes, which is the very definition of irrational.

So yeah, if you act irrationally, you will make bad decisions. But it's not irrational to believe something loosely based on a very limited set of facts.

gloryjulio2y ago

Because the act of the believe doesn't affect reality. Either u have a robust way to make the right judgement of the progress (in the case u r at the forefront of the research and knows what they r talking about), or u r just a bystander.

In the later case, the is no point in overthinking

ZeticeOP2y ago

Or you take what information you have at the time and you evaluate a situation based on just that, which is exactly how real life decisions work.

Rarely, exceedingly rarely even, do you have the luxury of waiting for all of the facts before deciding something.

gloryjulio2y ago

In this case that means you have the physics expertise to actually understand what's going on, which I already mentioned in the previous post. Not everything is accessible to layman, in this particular case the bar is very high.

My best answer is I don't know. If you are knowledge enough, go ahead

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ZeticeOP2y ago

You're all forgetting that you can change your mind when new information becomes available, and you can express your belief in terms of certainty.

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jprete2y ago

Because it leads to a habit of getting overly excited about every press release.

Turskarama2y ago

And then burning out when too many of them turn out to be nothing and deciding no progress ever gets made.

ZeticeOP2y ago

This begs the question; why "overly", why not just "excited"?

qup2y ago

For some of us, being wrong is its own consequence.

ZeticeOP2y ago

Seems like a great way to paralyze oneself.

qup2y ago

It can manifest like that, sure. It's not up to me, though. "Great ways" to do things are usually optional.

I mostly can work with it. It helps make me very good at certain tasks.

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beaned2y ago

Eventually such a practice will bite you in the ass when you form an opinion on something you think doesn't matter, but actually turns out to matter.

ZeticeOP2y ago

This presumes all of your opinions are wrong, and further presumes you'd hold these beliefs strongly when information changes, which is the very definition of irrational.

So yeah, if you act irrationally, you will make bad decisions. But it's not irrational to believe something loosely based on a very limited set of facts.

gloryjulio2y ago

In the later case, the is no point in overthinking

ZeticeOP2y ago

Or you take what information you have at the time and you evaluate a situation based on just that, which is exactly how real life decisions work.

Rarely, exceedingly rarely even, do you have the luxury of waiting for all of the facts before deciding something.

gloryjulio2y ago

My best answer is I don't know. If you are knowledge enough, go ahead

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ZeticeOP2y ago

You're all forgetting that you can change your mind when new information becomes available, and you can express your belief in terms of certainty.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse