Simetrical comments on Sunk Cost Fallacy - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Z_M_Davis 12 April 2009 05:30PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 12 April 2009 06:25:27PM 4 points [-]

The desire to have done something, in the absence of the desire to actually do it, is an interesting phenomenon. I find that in my case it most often applies to travel, which I hate, although I desire to have been to places I would need to travel to in order to have visited. We have to juggle the wants of self-at-t1-for-self-at-t1 with the wants of self-at-t2-for-self-at-t1. It's like procrastination, except that instead of forming an intention to do something later, one dissolves the intention to do it at all.

Comment author: Simetrical 14 April 2009 11:00:58PM 3 points [-]

Like Mark Twain's definition of a classic: "Something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."