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I sense there may be a contradiction between a decision theory that aims to be timeless and the mandate to ignore sunk costs because they're in the past. But I fear I may be terribly misunderstanding both concepts.
Yes, that might be a genuine contradiction, and ignoring sunk costs might be wrong. Can you try to come up with a simple decision problem that puts the two into conflict?