Timeline for Name for problems with a short-term pay off but small long term cost?
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| Nov 17, 2017 at 21:46 | comment | added | got trolled too much this week | @ArnonWeinberg: My understanding is that hyperbolic discounting is one particular instance (as in a specified function) of time-discounting. I do see the point that it's probably the most common one so synonymous in this sense. | |
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| Nov 6, 2017 at 20:47 | comment | added | Arnon Weinberg♦ | Can also add hyperbolic discounting, which is used in behaviour economics. Along with time preference / delay discounting, these are attempts to describe the short-term/long-term tradeoff mathematically. | |
| Nov 6, 2017 at 7:10 | comment | added | got trolled too much this week | And I know you didn't ask for this, but I for one found amazing that researchers were able to prove that midbrain dopamine neurons literally encode such a time discounting function: pnas.org/content/108/37/15462.full.pdf | |
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