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Best Guess Is Not Best Act

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Choosing an action under uncertainty means weighing every world the action might land in — not picking the likeliest world and acting as if it were certain.

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Rain sits at 0.3, the likeliest morning is dry — and nearly everyone carries the umbrella anyway, rightly.

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The two possible mistakes are nothing alike, and likeliest-world thinking is blind to that.