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OrphanWilde comments on [Link] “Proxy measures, sunk costs, and Chesterton's fence”, or: the sunk cost heuristic - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 08 August 2012 07:58:50PM 0 points [-]

That presumes you've forgotten why you did something to begin with, your reasoning having created that information. Again, given the precise conditions, I think it's a perfectly fine argument. I just don't find those conditions more probable than the converse, which is to say, having more information.