Well, if the health gain from the health kit is large enough to outweigh the health loss from needing to run through lava afterwards, then OK, maybe that’s worth doing.
Also even if it’s not actually enough, and you’re going to come out at a small loss overall, sometimes by the magic of time discounting it still feels like a net positive to your present self—because the cost is further away into the future than the gain.
Also even if it’s not actually enough, and you’re going to come out at a small loss overall, sometimes by the magic of time discounting it still feels like a net positive to your present self—because the cost is further away into the future than the gain.
Yes and this is one of many ways that humans don’t maximize the time-integral of reward. Sorry for an imperfect analogy. :)
I thought it was still quite an apt analogy, because we do essentially the same time-biased thing in all kinds of other contexts