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Solution: have a community where you can gain respect and status by having successfully noticed and avoided sunk cost reasoning. LW isn`t the best possible example of such a community, but a lot of the exercises done at, say, the summer minicamps in San Francisco were subsets of "get positive reinforcement for noticing Irrational Thought Pattern X in yourself, when normally various kinds of cognitive dissonance would make it tempting to sort of vaguely not notice it."
LW is a terrible example, an attachment to bunch of people (SI) who keep sinking their effort and other people's money, and rationalizing it. Regarding noticing irrational pattern, so you notice it, get rid of it, then what? You aren't gaining some incredible powers of finding correct answer (you'll just come up with something else that's wrong). It's something you always find in cults - thought reform, unlearn what you learnt style. You don't find people sitting at the desks doing math exercises all day being ranked for being correct, being taught how to be correct, that would be school/university course, it is boring, it's no silver bullet, it takes time.
Why are you here then? Please leave.
Are you intentionally trying to promote evaporative cooling?
Evaporative cooling regarding that attitude and this behavioral pattern? ABSOULTELY!
Boredom. You guys are highly unusual, have to give you that.
Might I suggest using fungibility? There are more effective ways than LW to treat boredom and desire for unusual conversation, if you pursue them separately.
This has its own failure mode.
I had read that article before. It's not something that I would consider a problem for myself...I rarely if ever abandon a project in the middle, and when I do, it's a) always been a personal project or goal that affects no one else, and b) always been something that turned out to be either a bad idea in the first place (i.e. my goal at age 14 of weighing 110 pounds...would never happen unless I actually develop an eating disorder), or important to me for the wrong reasons (going to the Olympics for swimming). Etc.
Note that this isn't any kind of argument against your point... If anything, it's my own personal failure mode of assuming everyone's brain is like mine and that their main problems are like mine.
However, I think it does count for something that nyan_sandwich posted this article, noticing a flaw in his reasoning, on LW...and got upvotes and praise.