I don't think I would sign on to the claim that more information is always better. There's usually some sources of information you can find that are at least somewhat helpful. If it's not going to help you make a better decision anyway, then yeah, it's not really making you better off practically speaking So I agree with that. It's hard and you can't You can't usually be Strongly confident that you've made the right choice. And so there's a lot of uncertainty at that level as well.
Podcaster and author Julia Galef talks about her book The Scout Mindset with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Galef urges us to be more rational--to be open-minded about what we might discover about the world--rather than simply defend what we already believe, which she calls the soldier mindset. The conversation is a wide-ranging discussion of our biases and the challenges of viewing the world objectively.