Wow, why didn’t I pick up on that? After going over Yvain’s post (which I read many months ago) I think it didn’t strike me the same way because he discusses the validity of extending the concept to humans and the details within a laboratory setting (which is great), while the NYT article takes it as a basic observation of humans and focuses on applications to real-life motivation.
Wow, why didn’t I pick up on that? After going over Yvain’s post (which I read many months ago) I think it didn’t strike me the same way because he discusses the validity of extending the concept to humans and the details within a laboratory setting (which is great), while the NYT article takes it as a basic observation of humans and focuses on applications to real-life motivation.
Which post? Sounds like I want to read it too :)
http://lesswrong.com/lw/6ja/basics_of_human_reinforcement/
Plus a few before and after it that are relevant. I looked for a sequence page, but it wasn’t on any.