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Sunk-Cost Fallacy

Edited by Grognor, Vladimir_Nesov last updated 11th Aug 2021
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Letting past investment (of time, energy, money, or any other resource) interfere with decision-making in the present in deleterious ways.

Blog posts

  • Sunk Cost Fallacy by Zack M. Davis
  • Sunk Costs Fallacy Fallacy by nyan_sandwich
  • Is Sunk Cost Fallacy a Fallacy? by gwern

External Links

  • Are sunk costs fallacies?
  • Sunk Cost Rationality Kata by MIRI

See also

  • Status quo bias
  • Loss aversion, Prospect theory
  • Cached thought
  • Narrative fallacy

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