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Comment by wuzzle

1 day ago

Think of it this way. Let's say you have 80% success rate in decision making. Great, you'll just fix the other 20%.

Here's the problem: decisions happen in sequence, layering on top of each other. If you have 3 chained decisions of 80% success rate each, your combined success rate is now 51%, marginally better than a coin flip.

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