3) People sometimes get unrealistic dreams and endlessly chase them, like trying to “make it big” in writing or sports, because they randomly got rewarded for it at an early age. I wrote a post about that.
I think he means that the fact they got rewarded at all had an element of luck to it, not that the rewards themselves were on a random-reinforcement schedule.
I agree that is what he meant in this post. I should have phrased my comment more clearly. But that doesn’t answer my confusion: the other post doesn’t talk about either kind of randomness.
As for reality, I think that people people pursue these dreams because they really were the best in their high school. Maybe they became the best in high school because they pursued it earlier because it was arbitrarily reinforced much earlier in life. But that random step seems to me a different, earlier step than the topic of the other post.
I agree that is what he meant in this post. I should have phrased my comment more clearly. But that doesn’t answer my confusion: the other post doesn’t talk about either kind of randomness.
It’s only mentioned in passing in the last paragraph, so the summary on the link here may have been a little misleading.
very tangential...
You don’t talk about random rewards in that post.
I think he means that the fact they got rewarded at all had an element of luck to it, not that the rewards themselves were on a random-reinforcement schedule.
I agree that is what he meant in this post. I should have phrased my comment more clearly. But that doesn’t answer my confusion: the other post doesn’t talk about either kind of randomness.
As for reality, I think that people people pursue these dreams because they really were the best in their high school. Maybe they became the best in high school because they pursued it earlier because it was arbitrarily reinforced much earlier in life. But that random step seems to me a different, earlier step than the topic of the other post.
It’s only mentioned in passing in the last paragraph, so the summary on the link here may have been a little misleading.
Thanks!