Never take any positive advice from someone you didn't ask for advice. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Let us say that, in general, failure (and disconfirmation) are more informative than success and confirmation, which is why I claim that negative knowledge is just “more robust.

His idea is that if we were to optimize at every step in life, then it would cost us an infinite amount of time and energy.

In the medical and social domains, treatment should never be equivalent to silencing symptoms.