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Knowing-too-much hazards: Information that if known, can cause danger to the person who knows it. For example, in the 1600s, women who allegedly possessed knowledge of the occult or of birth control methods were at a higher risk of being accused of witchcraft .
Information overload (also known as infobesity, [1] [2] infoxication, [3] or information anxiety [4]) is the difficulty in understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information (TMI) about that issue, [5] and is generally associated with the excessive quantity of daily information. [6]
[40] [41] Later, after convincing Alcibiades of the necessity of cultivating or taking care of himself, Socrates again makes reference to the maxim when he argues that one cannot cultivate oneself without first knowing what is meant by the word "self" – and to know this, as the Delphic inscription implies, is something "difficult, and not for ...
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Interest in "nothing too much" dropped off during the medieval era, but it was frequently cited in the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries (often in its Latin form, ne quid nimis). [24] From this time onward, the rule of moderation enjoined by the maxim has been more frequently applied to physical pleasures than to emotional states. [25]
The term "curse of knowledge" was coined in a 1989 Journal of Political Economy article by economists Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber.The aim of their research was to counter the "conventional assumptions in such (economic) analyses of asymmetric information in that better-informed agents can accurately anticipate the judgement of less-informed agents".
I quote that statistic only to make this point: Most of us don't have as much savings as we'd like, but we're working on it. If that's the boat you're in, don't be discouraged.
Omnipotence paradox: Can an omnipotent being create a rock too heavy for itself to lift? Polanyi's paradox: "We know more than we can tell", Polanyi's paradox brings to attention the cognitive phenomenon that there exist tasks which human beings understand intuitively how to perform but cannot verbalise the rules behind.