The first question the professor posed to her new invention, the consequenceometer, was:
"If I can learn the consequences of decisions before deciding, will I be more decisive?"
"No," the device said, "you will probe the consequences in ever greater depth, indecisive."
She never used it again.
It would have been a *great* thing to use to torture him, though -- Michael saying, "Here, Chidi, this machine will let you know all of the consequences of a decision, so you don't have to obsess over them anymore" only, of course, HE WOULD.