@The_Lagrangian Perhaps ego depletion is real insofar as it participates in the sunk cost fallacy
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Replying to @BagelDaughter
?? if anything ego depletion would work against sunk cost (impedes ability to willfully stay on task)
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
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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Replying to @BagelDaughter
interesting- metaphor of spending is same even though they're opposite mechanisms
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @BagelDaughter
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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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
oh huh that's not how I experience sunk cost in my head. I'll treat it as a false chestertons fence, not question it
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so often pay it less attention, all that effort spent, must be right
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