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on Feynman's FOMO/YOLO tradeoff."It's hard to study humans because they're often, in effect, solving a more complex version of the problem than the one you've given them. We tell them explicitly this is the distribution, but they still want to figure it out for themselves. Human cognition is often solving something that's more ambiguous and more nuanced than what you're trying to test."

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