11 thoughts on “Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ sunk costs”

        1. I’ve known or heard of many teenagers who were rabid believers and had a manageable to trivial time letting go of faith.

          It’s more likely the people who put decades into it that have a much more difficult time letting go. Too much to let go.

  3. Bet ol’ Mo never folds after the flop in a hand of Texas Hold ‘Em.

    Keeps tossing in good money after bad on The Turn and The River.

  5. Off topic, but Jerry gets a mention in the Gad Saad discussion with David Sloan Wilson on Youtube. He’s talking about the critics of “group selection”. It’s at 40:00 minutes

  6. This idea was applied to evolutionary biology in the form of parental care in terms of thinking about why one sex might invest in offspring rather than the other. I cannot recall the specific details but the idea suggested that the sex that has already invested in the offspring in a given reproductive bout should continue to be the sex that further invests in the offspring because it does not want to waste the investment done to that point. Dawkins and Carlisle skewered that idea—which they dubbed the Concord Fallacy—and suggested that investment decisions should be prospective, not retrospective (i.e. benefits from the decision point onward, not based on wasting what has already been invested). The name came from real life justification in developing the Concord aircraft—so much money had been spent part way through development that the argument was made that that this prior investment should not be wasted regardless of the costs going forward.

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