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by RationalDino 941 days ago
I'm focused on what we do with information we receive.

I have no idea what one is supposed to do about unknown information which was not received.

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As Donald Rumsfeld famously said when working his way through the permutations in a confusion matrix:

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones."

Probably more actionable, https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Intelligence-Analysis-Rich...