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by ycombobreaker 1292 days ago
> It is impossible know which choice will result in better outcomes. Whatever you choose has probably about equal chance of success or failure.

It's a common fallacy to assign 50/50 probability to unknown distributions. Furthermore, many choices are not binary, or may not be as simple as right/wrong in hindsight.

But I agree with the idea of amortizing your perspective over many choices.