It doesn’t seem too much different from Ainslie’s points about hyperbolic discounting and factions in the mind warring over what to do. One faction can lack the short-term clearcut justifications necessary to make ‘writing this fun little paper’ look like the good choice it is, compared to ‘grading these papers due back tomorrow’ (which is much easier to defend, though likely less valuable).
Well yes, but that sounds too convenient that it happens to arrange itself that way.
Unless this is basically “Texas Sharpshooter”.
It doesn’t seem too much different from Ainslie’s points about hyperbolic discounting and factions in the mind warring over what to do. One faction can lack the short-term clearcut justifications necessary to make ‘writing this fun little paper’ look like the good choice it is, compared to ‘grading these papers due back tomorrow’ (which is much easier to defend, though likely less valuable).