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There’s only one “may” there but yes, it masks “potentially losing crucial information”. The post I linked to is pretty clear on that.

I totally agree that the business need is the driver and that people miss the imperatives if they look at it purely from a technical or mathematical lens.

In a sense, synthetic data is the least bad actually viable solution. The democracy of privacy / data agility :p

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I was referring to both "it may have some drop in utility today... " and "in future it may well perform better than ..."

My issue is not that people just miss the imperatives, but that they also misapply effort because of it. Accept there is a cost and try and quantify the impact. Make intelligent risk management decisions based on that. Sometimes that decision is "this is unlikely to work, what else can we do".

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