It's a side effect.
Yes, they were being irrational in this case. But the heuristics they were using are there for good reason. Suppose they had money coming to them and you swooped in and took it away before it could reach them, they would be rational to object, right? That's why those heuristics are there. In practice the trigger conditions for these things are not specified with unlimited precision, and pure but interruptible random number generators are not common in real life, so the trigger conditions harmlessly spill over to this case. But the upshot is that they were irrational as a side effect of usually rational heuristics.
But the upshot is that they were irrational as a side effect of usually rational heuristics.
So, when I pester them for a rational reason, why do they keep giving an answer that is irrational for this situation?
I can understand your answer if the scenario was more like:
"Hey! Don't do that!"
"But it doesn't matter. See?"
"Oh. Well, okay. But don't do it anyway because..."
And then they mention your heuristic. They didn't do anything like this. They explicitly understood that nothing was changing in the probabilities and they e...
We've had these for a year, I'm sure we all know what to do by now.
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