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39 Post author: RobbBB 05 October 2015 09:23PM

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Comment author: V_V 14 October 2015 06:39:55PM -1 points [-]

Miraculously, people do reliably act this way.

I doubt it. Reference?

Comment author: CronoDAS 14 October 2015 07:59:21PM 2 points [-]

Mostly because they don't actually notice the cost of gas and car depreciation at the time...

Comment author: Jiro 14 October 2015 08:08:27PM 1 point [-]

You've described the mechanism by which the precommitment happened, not actually disputed whether it happens.

Many "irrational" actions by human beings can be analyzed as precommitment; for instance, wanting to take revenge on people who have hurt you even if the revenge doesn't get you anything.

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