Kevin comments on The Fundamental Question - Less Wrong

43 Post author: MBlume 19 April 2010 04:09PM

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Comment author: Kevin 20 April 2010 09:59:57AM 7 points [-]

You should go and donate $10 to the SIAI if you haven't, because people that donate any amount of money are much more likely to later donate more amounts of money. Anti-akrasia, etc. etc.

Comment author: timtyler 22 April 2010 09:15:38AM *  1 point [-]

These seem like the most relevant links to the associated cognitive biases:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_previous_investment