prase comments on Sunk Costs Fallacy Fallacy - Less Wrong
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It is possible that the evolutionary reason of the sunk costs fallacy is exactly this problem. Different fallacies (here: sunk costs and planning fallacy) compensate each other - removing one fallacy may be harmful if it destroys the previous balance.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. What a kludge.