Principlev1
Decision deliberation effort should scale with
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 when (escalation of commitment), Humans systematically prefer to be consistent with their (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.