@The_Lagrangian Perhaps ego depletion is real insofar as it participates in the sunk cost fallacy
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?? if anything ego depletion would work against sunk cost (impedes ability to willfully stay on task)
I mean, if you "expend effort" on something, you are more likely to consider it post-hoc as one would consider a sunk cost
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Aggressively: ego depletion is a psychosomatic manifestation of a perceived sunk cost
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yeah, encodes opportunity cost: http://the-lagrangian.blogspot.com/2015/10/time-depletion.html?m=1 …
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interesting- metaphor of spending is same even though they're opposite mechanisms
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ego depletion is freeing up attn for other potential util source, sunk cost is putting attn on same task despite util change
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