A star not yet lit · Biases
The Sunk Cost Fallacy
Throwing good effort after bad to honour a loss already paid.
Throwing good effort after bad to honour a loss already paid. That is the claim, and it is the kind that looks obvious until we try to say where it stops. Where does it hold, where does it fail, and what changes once we can see it at work? That is a conversation, not a paragraph.
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On the sky
Nearest on the sky
- Amor Fati
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Commitment and Consistency
- Disposition Effect
- Expected Value
- Hindsight Bias
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