It is fun to watch the absolute torrent of confirmation bias and people changing their minds all the time in the comments though. Must be exhausting to constantly wax and wane like that.
As you say, unless you regularly dance at the bleeding edge of material science, nothing you believe really matters, so why not jump in with both feet?
I mostly can work with it. It helps make me very good at certain tasks.
If you indeed waited for all relevant information, you’d never be able to make a choice. You, like every single other healthy human (some humans can’t do this) use emotion to decide when you’ve gathered enough information.
The only difference here is some are aware of this process and some aren’t.
In the later case, the is no point in overthinking
Rarely, exceedingly rarely even, do you have the luxury of waiting for all of the facts before deciding something.
My best answer is I don't know. If you are knowledge enough, go ahead
Not sure why r u so insist that only your way is right. That's ur choice of course
You’re talking about pride. Prideful people are not effective.
So yeah, if you act irrationally, you will make bad decisions. But it's not irrational to believe something loosely based on a very limited set of facts.