Unknowns comments on Visions and Mirages: The Sunk Cost Dilemma - Less Wrong

-8 Post author: OrphanWilde 20 May 2015 08:56PM

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Comment author: Unknowns 21 May 2015 07:58:43AM 2 points [-]

Also, in practice this only happens when someone is procrastinating and the supposedly additional steps are just ways of avoiding the more difficult steps, so a reasonable estimate of the remaining time to completion is that person is simply not going to complete the task, ever.