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Comment author: Manfred 26 January 2015 07:34:15PM 2 points [-]

For the practical real-world analogue of this, look up price discrimination strategies.

Anyhow, this doesn't work out very well for a number of reasons. In short antiprediction form, there's no particular reason why price discrimination should be monotonic in time, and so it almost certainly shouldn't.