Principlev1PR-818
Decision deliberation effort should scale…
Decision deliberation effort should scale with irreversibility rather than complexity, anxiety, or stakes, because reversibility determines both option value destruction and susceptibility to escalation traps.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Humans escalate commitment to failing courses of action… (escalation of commitment), Humans systematically prefer to be consistent… (commitment consistency), Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (finite deliberative resources), and Conscious Processing Is Metabolically Expensive (deliberation cost). Prescribes resource allocation heuristic based on objective property; highly actionable and general.