Thinking harder about a decision has diminishing returns because reality is inherently unknowable.

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• The severity of an outcome is not necessarily proportional to the quality of the decisions that led to it. JAJohn Allspaw29 Oct 2013
• In a world where it's impossible to make purely moral decisions in everything we do, we should all recognize where we're making trade-offs and not try to paint ourselves as being purely logical. MBMatt Birchler14 Oct 2026
• Inference was never going to be the easy, cheap half of AI, because inference is thinking, and thinking is far harder than reading. JHJensen Huang23 Mar 2026
• Decisions often require an extra level of awareness than you expect, and taking a beat to reconsider the deeper set of options before deciding sometimes prevents you from going down a bad path. CDCharlie Deets29 Jul 2026
• It is difficult to judge or make a decision without understanding the values of the decision-maker. JSJennifer Shahade28 Jul 2026

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