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by jvanderbot 1462 days ago
"Ignorance can be solved by random action"? I don't track.

If alternatives are actually equivalent, and that yields ambiguity in decision making, that's the worst time to go deep diving. "Resolve it and move on" is just a bias of mine.

It's ok, we'll probably never work together.

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Alternatives are almost never equivalent. If at decision time there is still ambiguity, it means that some criteria that separates the alternatives is not being considered.

You are suggesting to not search for that additional separating criteria and just use a coin flip to decide. Apparently you prefer a coworker that would flip a coin in order to move forward with a decision as soon as possible.

The other poster is saying the flipping a coin is the same as staying ignorant of that additional separating criteria. Apparently he'd prefer a coworker that wouldn't stay ignorant by choosing to flip a coin.