prase comments on Sunk Costs Fallacy Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: prase 25 January 2012 05:46:25PM 4 points [-]

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.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 January 2012 07:25:21PM 1 point [-]

Yeah that's what I was thinking. What a kludge.