It’s a small thing, but a friend and I were having coffee in a park, and he offered me the rest of his muffin, since he was full. I didn’t really want it, and we looked guiltily at it for a bit before spiking it into the garbage can, yelling “Take that, Sunk Cost Fallacy!” and doing a brief high five/victory dance.
It’s nice to have a social network that gives you positive feedback for spotting and short-circuiting biases.
It’s a small thing, but a friend and I were having coffee in a park, and he offered me the rest of his muffin, since he was full. I didn’t really want it, and we looked guiltily at it for a bit before spiking it into the garbage can, yelling “Take that, Sunk Cost Fallacy!” and doing a brief high five/victory dance.
It’s nice to have a social network that gives you positive feedback for spotting and short-circuiting biases.
What, no hungry pigeons around?
There are surely hungry birds at the dump as well.
What, no hungry people around?
That, too.
Universalizability problem—I don’t want to be in a park littered with the odds and ends of food people didn’t eat.