Wei_Dai comments on Akrasia, hyperbolic discounting, and picoeconomics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 23 January 2010 06:25:31AM 4 points [-]

I asked earlier:

Does evolutionary psychology provide an explanation for hyperbolic discounting?

There are actually many attempts to answer this question in the economics literature. I'm not sure why I didn't find them earlier.

One paper is Uncertainty and Hyperbolic Discounting and others can be found by searching for papers that cite it.