Ah, I see what you’re saying now. So it is analogous to the cancer example: higher stakes make less-likely-to-succeed-efforts more worth doing. (When compared with lower stakes, not when compared with efforts more likely to succeed, of course.) That makes sense.
Ah, I see what you’re saying now. So it is analogous to the cancer example: higher stakes make less-likely-to-succeed-efforts more worth doing. (When compared with lower stakes, not when compared with efforts more likely to succeed, of course.) That makes sense.