Larifari comments on Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Larifari 02 January 2011 04:53:57PM 4 points [-]

Do we actually know that our discounting function is hyperbolic in the range below 5 minutes? Or is that just extrapolation from experiments done on longer intervals?

Comment author: Strange7 04 January 2011 11:58:35PM 0 points [-]

At the very least, there's a classic study on pidgeons for that time frame.