AndrewHickey comments on Overcoming Suffering & Buddhism - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Hul-Gil 31 May 2011 04:35AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 31 May 2011 11:10:53AM 4 points [-]

I'm talking about accepting things that have already happened. Wanting to prevent any future deaths is a good thing. Continuing to feel bad about deaths that have already happened is, past a certain point, counterproductive.

Comment author: MixedNuts 31 May 2011 11:22:24AM 1 point [-]

So, extreme sunk cost indifference? Might work. Doesn't it make negative reinforcement too small?